NCE ASSESSMENT AND TESTING PRACTICE
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A counselor pursues a testing catalog in search of a test
which will repeatedly give me consistent results. The
counselor
a. is interested in reliability
b. is interested in validity
c. is looking for information which is not available
c. is magnifying an unimportant issue
a. is interested in reliability
A test can have high _________ but still have low ________
reliability ; validity
**reliability places a ceiling on validity, but validity does not set the
limits on reliability
(Ex. a scale can read the wrong weight numerous times in a row)
Which measure would yield the highest level of reliability?
a. a TAT, projective test popular with psychodynamic helpers
b. the WAIS-IV, a popular IQ test
c. The MMPI02, a popular personality test
d. A very accurate postage scale
d. a very accurate postage scale
**in the real world, physical measurements are more reliable than
psychological ones
Construct validity refers to the extent that a test measures an
abstract trait or psychological notion. An example would be
a. height
b. weight
,c. ego strength
d. the ability to name all men who have served as US
presidents
c. ego strength
**any trait you cannot "directly" measure or observe can be
considered a construct
Face validity revers to the extent that a test
a. looks or appears to measure the intended attribute
b. measures a theoretical construct
c. appears to be constructed in an artistic fashion
d. can be compared to job performance
a. looks or appears to measure the intended attribute
Face validity
merely tells you whether the test looks like it measures the
intended trait
Ex. a persons face
A job test which predicted future performance on a job very
well would
a. have high criterion/predictive validity
b. have excellent face validity
c. have excellent construct validity
d. not have incremental validity or synthetic validity
a. have high criterion/predictive validity
incremental validity
describes the process by which a test is refined and becomes
more valid as contradictory items are dropped
refers to the tests ability to improve predictions when compared to
existing measures that purport to facilitate selection in business or
educational settings
when a test has this, it provides you with additional valid
information that was not attainable via other procedures
,Synthetic validity
the helper or researcher looks for tests that have been shown to
predict each job element or component
A new IQ test which yielded results nearly identical to other
standardized measures would be said to have
a. good concurrent validity
b. good face validity
c. superb internal consistency
d. all of the above
a. good concurrent validity
Convergent validity
the measure should correlate more strongly with other measures
of the same constructs
discriminant validity
measure of the lack of association among constructs that are
supposed to be different
When a counselor tells a client that the Graduate Record
Examination (GRE) will predict her ability to handle graduate
work, the counselor is referring to
a. good concurrent validity
b. construct validity
c. face validity
d. predictive validity
d. predictive validity
A reliable test is ______ valid
a. always
b. 90%
c. not always
d. 80%
c. not always
A valid test is ________ reliable
a. not always
b. always
c. never
d. 80%
, b. always
One method of testing reliability is to give the same test to
the same group off people two times and the correlate
scores. this is called
a. test-retest reliability
b. equivalent forms of reliability
c. alternate forms reliability
d. the split half method
a. test-retest reliability
One method of testing reliability is to give the same
population alternate forms of the identical test. Each form
will have the same psychometric/statistical properties as the
original instrument. This is known as
a. test-restest reliability
b. equivalent or alternate forms reliability
c. the split half method
d. internal consistency
b. equivalent or alternate forms reliability
Counterbalancing
half of the individuals get one form of the test, and the other half
get the other form of the test.
This controls for variable such as fatigue, practice, and motivation
A counselor doing research decided to split a standardized
test in half by using the even items as one test and the odd
items as a second test and then correlating them. The
counselor
a. used an invalid procedure to test reliability
b. was testing reliability via the split half correlation method
c. was resting reliability via the equivalent forms method
d. was testing reliability via the inter-rater method
b. was testing reliability via the split half method
Which method of reliability testing would be useful with an
essay test but not with a test of algebra problems?
a. test-retest
Exam Questions 100% with Detailed Verified Answers
Already Graded A+ 2025
A counselor pursues a testing catalog in search of a test
which will repeatedly give me consistent results. The
counselor
a. is interested in reliability
b. is interested in validity
c. is looking for information which is not available
c. is magnifying an unimportant issue
a. is interested in reliability
A test can have high _________ but still have low ________
reliability ; validity
**reliability places a ceiling on validity, but validity does not set the
limits on reliability
(Ex. a scale can read the wrong weight numerous times in a row)
Which measure would yield the highest level of reliability?
a. a TAT, projective test popular with psychodynamic helpers
b. the WAIS-IV, a popular IQ test
c. The MMPI02, a popular personality test
d. A very accurate postage scale
d. a very accurate postage scale
**in the real world, physical measurements are more reliable than
psychological ones
Construct validity refers to the extent that a test measures an
abstract trait or psychological notion. An example would be
a. height
b. weight
,c. ego strength
d. the ability to name all men who have served as US
presidents
c. ego strength
**any trait you cannot "directly" measure or observe can be
considered a construct
Face validity revers to the extent that a test
a. looks or appears to measure the intended attribute
b. measures a theoretical construct
c. appears to be constructed in an artistic fashion
d. can be compared to job performance
a. looks or appears to measure the intended attribute
Face validity
merely tells you whether the test looks like it measures the
intended trait
Ex. a persons face
A job test which predicted future performance on a job very
well would
a. have high criterion/predictive validity
b. have excellent face validity
c. have excellent construct validity
d. not have incremental validity or synthetic validity
a. have high criterion/predictive validity
incremental validity
describes the process by which a test is refined and becomes
more valid as contradictory items are dropped
refers to the tests ability to improve predictions when compared to
existing measures that purport to facilitate selection in business or
educational settings
when a test has this, it provides you with additional valid
information that was not attainable via other procedures
,Synthetic validity
the helper or researcher looks for tests that have been shown to
predict each job element or component
A new IQ test which yielded results nearly identical to other
standardized measures would be said to have
a. good concurrent validity
b. good face validity
c. superb internal consistency
d. all of the above
a. good concurrent validity
Convergent validity
the measure should correlate more strongly with other measures
of the same constructs
discriminant validity
measure of the lack of association among constructs that are
supposed to be different
When a counselor tells a client that the Graduate Record
Examination (GRE) will predict her ability to handle graduate
work, the counselor is referring to
a. good concurrent validity
b. construct validity
c. face validity
d. predictive validity
d. predictive validity
A reliable test is ______ valid
a. always
b. 90%
c. not always
d. 80%
c. not always
A valid test is ________ reliable
a. not always
b. always
c. never
d. 80%
, b. always
One method of testing reliability is to give the same test to
the same group off people two times and the correlate
scores. this is called
a. test-retest reliability
b. equivalent forms of reliability
c. alternate forms reliability
d. the split half method
a. test-retest reliability
One method of testing reliability is to give the same
population alternate forms of the identical test. Each form
will have the same psychometric/statistical properties as the
original instrument. This is known as
a. test-restest reliability
b. equivalent or alternate forms reliability
c. the split half method
d. internal consistency
b. equivalent or alternate forms reliability
Counterbalancing
half of the individuals get one form of the test, and the other half
get the other form of the test.
This controls for variable such as fatigue, practice, and motivation
A counselor doing research decided to split a standardized
test in half by using the even items as one test and the odd
items as a second test and then correlating them. The
counselor
a. used an invalid procedure to test reliability
b. was testing reliability via the split half correlation method
c. was resting reliability via the equivalent forms method
d. was testing reliability via the inter-rater method
b. was testing reliability via the split half method
Which method of reliability testing would be useful with an
essay test but not with a test of algebra problems?
a. test-retest
