Assessment and Testing Flashcards
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Which psychometric property indicates that a test consistently measures what it measures across repeated administrations?
Answer: Reliability
Reliability refers to the consistency and stability of test scores across time, raters, or forms, and is a prerequisite for test validity.
Content validity refers to:
Answer: Whether the test items adequately represent the domain being measured
Content validity assesses whether test items adequately and representatively sample the full domain of content being measured.
A norm-referenced test compares an individual's score to:
Answer: The scores of a standardization sample
Norm-referenced tests interpret scores relative to a normative or standardization sample, indicating how an individual compares to others in the reference group.
The standard error of measurement (SEM) represents:
Answer: The expected amount of error in any individual's observed score
SEM estimates how much an observed score differs from a person's true score due to measurement error, and is used to construct confidence intervals around scores.
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is best described as a(n):
Answer: Self-report symptom severity measure
The BDI is a 21-item self-report questionnaire measuring the severity of depressive symptoms, widely used in clinical research and practice.
A counselor suspects cultural bias in a test used with a client from a minority background. This concern relates primarily to:
Answer: Construct validity and fairness
Cultural bias threatens construct validity and test fairness by systematically disadvantaging examinees from certain cultural backgrounds, potentially measuring cultural familiarity rather than the intended construct.