Validity/Quiz

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Quiz

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1 Yes or No, A test of ability to add two-digit numbers should cover the full range of combinations of digits.

	Yes
	No

2 Content validity deals with which of the following?

	a test with only one-digit of two-digit numbers
	the emotional principles of a psychological test
	prima facie face validity
	construct validity
	persuasive rhetoric

3 True or False, A particular operationalization of a construct adequately represents what is intended.

	TRUE
	FALSE

4 Construct validity involves which attribute?

	a totality of mismapping
	empirical and theoretical support for the misinterpretation of the construct
	relationships separating the test and measures
	the lack of support for the substantive theory of the construct
	the degree to which a measure is uncorrelated with other measures
	the operationalization does not correlate with other operationalizations

5 True or False, The test data and criterion data are collected at the same time for concurrence.

	TRUE
	FALSE

6 What is the aim of criterion validity?

	the correlation between the test and a criterion variable
	a representative of the distruct
	criterion data is collected first
	tests of job performance are often validated against employee selection measures
	measures of recidivism are representative of risk
	concurrent validity requires test data to be acquired first

7 True or False, Measures of risk of recidivism among those convicted of a crime can be validated against measures of recidivism.

	TRUE
	FALSE

8 Convergent validity is intended to explain what relationship?

	premises from conclusions
	the degree to which an operation is similar to other operations
	scores on a test can be correlated with scores on any other test
	high correlations between random test scores
	assessment is unrelated to what it should theoretically be related to
	a false conclusion from false premises

9 True or False, A discriminant is a buffer put between two individuals in disagreement.

	TRUE
	FALSE

10 Which of the following is applicable to discriminant validity?

	a successful evaluation of discriminant validity shows that a test of a concept is highly correlated with other tests designed to measure theoretically different concepts
	any two scales do correlate
	a result greater than 0.85
	narcissism highly correlated with self-esteem
	there is a standard value for discriminant validity
	two constructs overlapping to less than 0.50

See also

• Evaluation
• Experiments
• Performance evaluations
• Truth

External links

• African Journals Online
• Bing Advanced search
• Google Books
• Google scholar Advanced Scholar Search
• JSTOR
• Lycos search
• NASA's National Space Science Data Center
• NCBI All Databases Search
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information
• PsycNET
• Questia - The Online Library of Books and Journals
• SAGE journals online
• Scirus for scientific information only advanced search
• Spacecraft Query at NASA
• SpringerLink
• Taylor & Francis Online

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