PSYC 545 Quiz Reliability
PSYC 545 Quiz: Reliability
- What type of reliability estimate is appropriate for use in a comparison of “Form A” to “Form B” of a picture vocabulary test?
- A confidence interval is a range or band of test scores that
- If items on a test are measuring very different traits, estimates of reliability yielded from split-half methods will typically be ________ as compared with estimates from KR-20.
- Which of the following is TRUE about systematic and unsystematic error in the assessment of physical and psychological abuse?
- A measure of clerical speed is obtained by a test that has respondents alphabetize index cards. The manual for this test cites a split-half reliability coefficient for a single administration of the test of .95. What might you conclude?
- A police officer administers a breathalyzer test to a suspected drunk driver, does not put on his glasses to read the meter, and as a result, mistakenly records the blood alcohol level. This is the kind of mistake that is BEST associated with which type of reliability estimates?
- Stanley (1971) wrote that in classical test theory, a so-called “true score” is “not the ultimate fact in the book of the recording angel.” By this, Stanley meant that
- The meaning of reliability in the psychometric sense differs from the meaning of reliability in the “every day” use of that word in that
- For determining the reliability of tests scored using nominal scales of measurement, the statistic of choice is
- Which of the following statements is TRUE about coefficient alpha?
- Item response theory is to latent trait theory as observer reliability is to
- Prior to research on inter-rater reliability for DSM-5, DSM inter-rater reliability estimates were obtained using the ________ method.
- Which is TRUE of measurement error?
- A dichotomous test item is one that
- As the confidence interval increases, the range of scores into which a single test score falls is likely to
- Which of the following would result in the LEAST appropriate estimate of reliability for a speed test?
- Which of the following is TRUE of domain sampling theory?
- According to generalizability theory, a variable such as “number of items in the test” is a description of one
- The Rasch model
- Field trials of DSM-5 demonstrated a mean kappa that was indicative of a ________ level of agreement among raters.
- As used in Chapter 5 of your text, the term inflation of variance is synonymous with
- Which type of reliability estimate is obtained by correlating pairs of scores from the same person (or people) on two different administrations of the same test?
- Prior to DSM-5, a problem with the primary method used to estimate reliability of the DSM was that the method
- Which of the following is TRUE for parallel forms of a test?
- Which statistic can help the test user determine how large a difference must exist for scores yielded from two different tests to be considered statistically different?