Solutions
Developed by Robert Yerkes, the ______ is a language-free test that was designed for
individuals who could not read or were foreign born. ✔✔Army Beta
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)... ✔✔maximal performance test
The Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1984 (Carl D. Perkins Act)... ✔✔provides
disadvantaged populations access to vocational assessment, counseling, and placement services
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? ✔✔Release of
results to qualified professionals
Which source is designed to provide the layperson with understandable assessment information?
✔✔Test Critiques
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 ✔✔A validity coefficient of .25
is high
What formula would you use to measure the interitem consistency of a test with a Likert-type
scale? ✔✔Cronbach's coefficient alpha
If a math test item has positive item discrimination, it can be said that... ✔✔more student who
knew the material answered the question correctly than students who did not know the material
well
Which type of instrument scale is based on the belief that people think dichotomously?
✔✔Semantic differential
Item response theory can be used to... ✔✔detect item bias in the same test given to an African
American and a Latino American