Coun 6360 week 6 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

COUN 6360 Week 5 Quiz 1. Which of the following is NOT a type of reliability? 2. A type of reliability in which half of the test items are correlated with the other half is called: 3. The Carl Perkins Act (PL 98-524) asserted: 4. GriggsDuke Power Company asserted: 5. Probably, the most basic form of validity is content validity. 6. "A test developer creates a new instrument to measure depression. He correlates this instrument with an existing test that measures anxiety. The test developer...

COUN 6360 Week 5 Quiz 1. The Buckley Amendment, otherwise known as FERPA, asserted: 2. One problem with parallel forms reliability is that individuals may look up questions between the time they take the two tests. 3. In assessing the validity of a test, you randomly assign 100 individuals to two groups: one group assesses intelligence through a newly developed test, and a second group assesses intelligence through a traditional intelligence test that has been shown to be valid. You then cond...

1. Question: Jerome has scored a 10 on a test. How has he done? 2. Question: Measures of central tendency tell you something about the middle of a series of numbers but hardly anything about the variability of a set of numbers. 3. Question: A histogram is the preferred method over the cumulative distribution for conveying information about the percentile rank. 4. Question: On a normally distributed curve, which is true? 5. Question: If an individual takes a test, and if you know an individua...

1. Question: Histograms and frequency polygons are visual representations of frequency distributions. 2. Question: Jerome has scored a 10 on a test. How has he done? 3. Question: The results of a norm group comparison test can do all of the following EXCEPT: 4. Question: On negatively skewed curves, the mean is lower than the median, which is lower than the mode. 5. Question: On a normally distributed curve, which is true? 6. Question: Measures of central tendency tell you something about t...

1. Question: Histograms and frequency polygons are visual representations of frequency distributions. 2. Question: Jerome has scored a 10 on a test. How has he done? 3. Question: The results of a norm group comparison test can do all of the following EXCEPT: 4. Question: On negatively skewed curves, the mean is lower than the median, which is lower than the mode. 5. Question: On a normally distributed curve, which is true? 6. Question: Measures of central tendency tell you something about t...

1. Question: Jerome has scored a 10 on a test. How has he done? 2. Question: Measures of central tendency tell you something about the middle of a series of numbers but hardly anything about the variability of a set of numbers. 3. Question: A histogram is the preferred method over the cumulative distribution for conveying information about the percentile rank. 4. Question: On a normally distributed curve, which is true? 5. Question: If an individual takes a test, and if you know an individua...

1. Question: Histograms and frequency polygons are visual representations of frequency distributions. 2. Question: Jerome has scored a 10 on a test. How has he done? 3. Question: The results of a norm group comparison test can do all of the following EXCEPT: 4. Question: On negatively skewed curves, the mean is lower than the median, which is lower than the mode. 5. Question: On a normally distributed curve, which is true? 6. Question: Measures of central tendency tell you something about t...

1. Question: Jerome has scored a 10 on a test. How has he done? 2. Question: Measures of central tendency tell you something about the middle of a series of numbers but hardly anything about the variability of a set of numbers. 3. Question: A histogram is the preferred method over the cumulative distribution for conveying information about the percentile rank. 4. Question: On a normally distributed curve, which is true? 5. Question: If an individual takes a test, and if you know an individua...