PSYCH 309 TEST #2 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026

PSYCH 309 TEST #2 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026 1. Evidence for Validity should include what information about construct, criterion, and content validation? - Answers Which type of validity needs to be present? They all do. 1. Which type of validity is most important for educational tests? - Answers a. Content validity 1. Under what circumstances is construct validation essential? (What other types of validity must be present) - Answers If no criterion or content validity is present and adequate enough to define the quality. 1. Which of the following is true regarding the relationship between reliability and validity? - Answers a. A measure can be reliable but not valid b. If it's valid, it's reliable 1. Question about FACE validity. Face validity is ________? - Answers a. The mere appearance that a measure has validity b. Colleagues observe and measure face validity c. Not a real validity 1. Some studies have failed to demonstrate that the GRE is a good predictor of grade point average in graduate school. One of the difficulties with these studies is __________? - Answers Restricted range: admitted students ability graduate school grade average 1. Cronbach and other authors have argued that all types of validity are really sub-categories of what? - Answers a. Construct validity 1. Evidence that indicates that a measure does not represent a construct other than the one for which it was devised is (what type of validity)? - Answers a. Discriminat evidence - Construct validity 1. When evidence obtained in one situation is not found in other similar situations, the evidence lacks what? - Answers a. Criterion Validity Evidence for validity generalization 1. The degree to which a test or measure adequately represents the conceptual domain it is designed to measure? - Answers a. Construct validity Face Validity - Answers The appearance that a measure has validity Content validity - Answers How adequate/exhaustively do test items measure the construct domain? Under Construct validity Predictive validity - Answers Test score increases or decreases over time as predicted by theory Construct validity - Answers The degree to which a set of measurement operations measure hypothesized constructs Criterion validity - Answers How well test scores correspond with a particular criterion Three sub-types of criterion-related validity - Answers Predictive validity Concurrent validity Postdictive validity Concurrent validity - Answers test scores relate to the criterion and can be measured at the same time Postdictive validity - Answers accuracy with which test score predicts a previously obtained criterion There are three types of evidence - Answers Construct-related Criterion-related Content-related Construct-related - Answers (does it measure what it wants to measure) Criterion-related - Answers (does it correlate with external criterion) Content-related - Answers (how adequately does test measure construct domain) Under Construct validity Criterion-referenced validity - Answers correlating a test on marital satisfaction with a test on self-esteem Under Construct validity Convergent validity - Answers One test correlates very highly with a test measuring the same construct and moderately with related constructs Under Construct validity Discriminant or Divergent validity - Answers One test measuring a certain construct should NOT correlate with unrelated constructs In general, studies have indicated that the race of the examiner has what effect on test performance? - Answers No effect Dominique is a Caucasian male. He's in the 1st grade and his reading skills are being assessed for placement for the next year. His teacher is out sick on the day of his assessment. You can expect his test score to be ________? - Answers Influenced - lower.