NUR 302 - CHAPTER 11 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

NUR 302 - CHAPTER 11 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 The difference between a true score and an obtained score is referred to as which of the following? A) Internal inconsistency B) Non-equivalence C) Interobserver disagreement D) Error of measurement - Answers D The level of measurement that classifies and ranks people in terms of the degree to which they possess the attribute of interest is which of the following? A) Nominal B) Ordinal C) Interval D) Ratio - Answers B Blood type is measured on which of the following? A) Nominal scale B) Ordinal scale C) Interval scale D) Ratio scale - Answers A It is not meaningful to calculate an arithmetic average with data from which of the following? A) Nominal measures B) Ordinal measures C) Nominal and ordinal measures D) All measures can be meaningfully averaged - Answers C Type of college degree (associate's, bachelor's, master's, doctorate) is measured on which of the following scales? A) Nominal B) Ordinal C) Interval D) Ratio - Answers B One source of measurement error in social-psychological scales is which of the following? A) Response-set bias B) Nonresponse bias C) Attrition bias D) Selection bias - Answers A A measure of which of the following traits would be a particularly good candidate for a test-retest reliability assessment? A) Anxiety B) Fear of heights C) Mood D) Fatigue - Answers B Cronbach's alpha is used to assess which of the following attributes of an instrument? A) Internal consistency B) Stability C) Equivalence D) Sensitivity - Answers A The aspect of reliability for which interobserver reliability is appropriate is which of the following? A) Stability B) Internal consistency C) Equivalence D) Specificity - Answers C If the coefficient alpha for a stress scale was computed to be .80, the scale would be which of the following? A) More reliable than a scale with an alpha of .50 B) A valid indicator of stress C) Of indeterminate reliability until the scale's test-retest reliability was assessed D) Of unacceptably low reliability - Answers A The type of validity that employs primarily judgment in its assessment is which of the following? A) Content B) Concurrent C) Predictive D) Construct - Answers A Suppose a researcher were interested in assessing the adequacy of an instrument to measure the theoretical concept of hopefulness. The most appropriate type of validation procedure would be which of the following? A) Content B) Concurrent C) Predictive D) Construct - Answers D Which of the following terms does not belong with the other three? A) Face validity B) Criterion-related validity C) Predictive validity D) Concurrent validity - Answers A With screening or diagnostic instruments, the concept indicating the instruments' ability to correctly identify a "case" (i.e., to screen in or diagnose a condition correctly) is which of the following? A) Sensitivity B) Stability C) Specificity D) Sensibility - Answers A Which of the following is an example of an ordinal measurement? A) Gender (male or female) B) Milligrams of a medication dosage C) Levels of education (associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree) D) Score on the HESI preadmission or first year examination for nursing - Answers C Which of the following is an example of a nominal measurement? A) Grams of carbohydrate intake B) Hand dominance (right or left ) C) Emotional intelligence quotients D) Age in years - Answers B Which of the following is an example of a ratio measurement? A) Fahrenheit scale for measuring temperature B) Body mass index C) Quality of life scale score D) Levels of education - Answers B Which of the following is the term representing the "difference between a true and obtained score''? A) Error of measurement B) An observed score C) Response-set bias D) Situational contaminant - Answers A Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between reliability and validity? A) If a measure is reliable, it will be valid. B) As reliability increases, validity decreases. C) If a measure is not reliable, it cannot be valid. D) There is no direct relationship between the two. - Answers C Which of the following is indicated by the "content validity index (CVI)"? A) Internal consistency of the measured items within one measure B) The extent of expert agreement ensuring adequate content coverage C) Equivalence of two separate forms of a measure