Army Beta
Developed by Robert Yerkes, the ______ is a language-free test that was designed for individuals who could not read or were foreign
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maximal performance test
If a professional school counselor wants to know if a student is ready to move to the next grade level, she should administer a(n)...
provides disadvantaged populations access to vocational assessment, counseling, and placement services
The Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1984 (Carl D. Perkins Act)...
Release of results to qualified professionals
A professional counselor releases a client's test results to a bachelor's level case manager who has no training in testing and assessment. What ethical guideline was violated?
Test Critiques
Which source is designed to provide the layperson with understandable assessment information?
A validity coefficient of .25 is high
Which of the following is NOT true about test validity?
a. Validity should always be reported in terms of test purpose and intended population.
b. Test scores do not have to be valid to be reliable
c. A validity coefficient of .25 is high
d. False positive errors contribute to a lack of test score validity
Cronbach's coefficient alpha
What formula would you use to measure the interitem consistency of a test with a Likert-type scale?
more student who knew the material answered the question correctly than students who did not know the material well
If a math test item has positive item discrimination, it can be said that...
Semantic differential
Which type of instrument scale is based on the belief that people think dichotomously?
detect item bias in the same test given to an African American and a Latino American
Item response theory can be used to...
There is not enough information to know how the student performed
If a student scored 45 on a difficult English test, what can be said about her performance?
74
If a set of test scores with a mean of 74 and a standard deviation of 10 is normally distributed, what is the median?
81.5%
In a normal distribution, ______ of scores falls between -1 and +2 standard deviations?
97.5%
If the mean of an achievement test is 31 and the standard deviation is 3, what is the percentile rank of a student who scored a 37 on that test?
2
An individual with a z-score of -1.3 has a stanine score of...
All of the above
Achievement testing includes:
a. standardized norm-referenced tests
b. teacher-constructed criterion referenced tests
c. standardized high stakes tests
d. All of the above
Key Math Diagnostic Test
John, a third grade student, is having trouble in math. The teacher suspects that John has a learning disability in math. Which of the following achievement tests should be used to determine whether John has a learning disability in math?
Test of Adult Basic Education
Which one of the following is NOT an example of an aptitude test?
a. GRE general test
b. Clerical Test Battery
c. Test of Adult Basic Education
d. Stanford-Binet 5
Differential Aptitude Test (DAT); Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude
The ______ measures several distinct aspects of vocational ability, and the ______ measures one homogeneous area of vocational ability.
by dividing one's mental age by chronological age
William Stern's radio intelligence quotient, popularized on early versions of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, was calculated... [Show Less]