Psychological Assessment (L5)

Question 1

Correlation coefficient tends to be higher.

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Inflation

Question 2

Untoward influence during administration of a test include factors related to the test environment: eg. room temperature

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Test Administration

Question 3

Assign odd-numbered items to one half of the test and even-numbered items to the other half.

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Odd-Even Reliability

Question 4

Contains items of uniform level of difficulty so that, all testaker should be avle to complete all the test items.

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Speed Test

Question 5

Seek to estimate the extent to which specific sources of variation under defined conditions are contributing to the test

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Domain Sampling Theory

Question 6

Contain items that measure a single trait.

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Homogeneity

Question 7

Degree to which an item differentiates among people with higher or lower levels of the trait, ability.

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Discrimination

Question 8

All the factors associated with the process of measuring some variable, other than the variable being measured.

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Measurement Error

Question 9

Time limit is long enough to allow testtakers to attempt all items.

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Power Test

Question 10

What is the interpretation in 0.80-0.89?

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Good

Question 11

Ability to change depending on experiences.

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Dynamic Characteristics

Question 12

Questions with three or more alternative responses.

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Polytomous Test Items

Question 13

statistics useful in describing source of test score variability; the standard deviation squared.

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Variance

Question 14

The influence of particular facets on the test score.

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Coefficients of Generalizability

Question 15

Source of error in measuring a variable that is typically constant or proportionate to what is presumed to be the true.

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Systematic Error

Question 16

Does not expect any changes.

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Static Characteristic

Question 17

Advent of computer scoring orgrowing reliance on objective have virtually eliminated variance by scorer differences.

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Test Scoring and Interpretation

Question 18

Terms that refer to variation among items within a test as well as to variation among items between tests.

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Test Construction

Question 19

Refers to consistency in measurement. Proportion of the total variance attributed to true variance.

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Reliability

Question 20

What is the interpretation in 0.9 and above?

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Excellent

Question 21

When the interval between testing is greater than six months, the estimate of test-retest reliability is often referred

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Coefficient of Stability

Question 22

Measure that focuses on the degree of difference that exits between item scores.

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Averafe Proportionsl Distance (APD)

Question 23

Provide an indication of where a testtaker stands with respect to some variable or criterion.

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Criterion-referenced test

Question 24

Developers examine the usefulness of test scores in helping the test user make decisions.

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Decision Study

Question 25

Provide a way to model the probability that a person with X ability will be able to perform at a level of Y.

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Item Respinse Theory (IRT)

Question 26

Based on the idea that a person's test scores vary from testing to testing because of variables in the testing situation

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Generalizability Theory

Question 27

What is the interpretation in below 0.70?

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May have limited applicability

Question 28

Tool used to estimate of infer the extent to which an observed score deviates from a true score.

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Stabdard Error of Measurement

Question 29

degree of the relationship between various forms of a test can be evaluated by means of alternate-forms of parallel form

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Coefficient of Equivalent.

Question 30

Index of reliability, a proportion that indicates the ratio between the true score variance on a test and total variance

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Reliability Coefficient

Question 31

The degree of agreement or consistency between two or more scorers with regard to a particular measure.

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Inter-Scorer Reliability

Question 32

Correlation coefficient tends to be lower.

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Restriction

Question 33

The mean of all possible split-half correlations, is appropriate for use of tests containing nondichotomous items

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Coefficient Alpha

Question 34

Examines how generalizable scores from a particular test are if the test is administered in different situations.

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Generalizability Study

Question 35

Exact same conditions of all the facets in the universe, the exact same test score should be obtained.

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Universe Score

Question 36

Range or band of test scores that is likely to contain the true score.

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Confidence Interval

Question 37

Estimate of the extent to which item sampling and other errors have affected test scores on versions of the same test.

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Parallel Forms Reliability Estimates

Question 38

Aid a test user in determining how large a difference should be before it is considered statistically significant.

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Standard Error of Differences

Question 39

Test exist when, for each form of test, the means and the variance of observed test scores are equal.

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Parallel Forms

Question 40

Test is composed of items that measure more than one trait.

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Heterogeneity

Question 41

Refers to the degree of correlation among all items on a scale.

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Inter-Item Consistency

Question 42

Mean square error deviation.

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Error Variance

Question 43

Statistics of choice for determining the inter-item consistency of dichotomous items.

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Kuder-Richardson Formula 20

Question 44

Genuine value of what we are measuring.

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True Variance

Question 45

How many months is the interval of the rest in test-retest estimates?

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6 months

Question 46

Refers to an estimate of the extent to which these different forms of the same test have been affected bt item sampling.

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Alternate Forms Reliability

Question 47

What is the interpretation in 0.70-0.79?

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Adequate

Question 48

Reference to an IRT model with very specific assumptions about the underlying distribution.

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Rasch Model

Question 49

An estimate of reliability obtained by correlating pairs of scores from the same people on two different administrations

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Test-Retest Estimates

Question 50

Can be answered with only one of two alternative responses.

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Dichotomous Test Items

Question 51

Is not a term used to refer to a single theory or method.

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Latent Trait Theory

Question 52

Source of error in measuring a targeted variable cause by unpredictable fluctuations and inconsistencies.

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Random Error

Question 53

Simplest way of determining the degree of consistency among scorer in scoring of a test is to calculate a coefficient.

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Coefficient of Inter-Scorer Reliability

Question 54

Used when the items are few. internal consistency reliability from a correlation of two halves of a test.

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Spearman-Brown Formula

Question 55

Simply different versions of a test that have been constructed so as to be parallel.

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Psychological Assessment (L5)

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Psychological Assessment (L5)

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