6. Which is NOT one of the areas identified as an influence of computers on testing?
a. score reporting
b. test administration
c. cost of testing
d. statistical processing
7. Which is true about the relative number of tests covered by MMY and Test Critiques?
a. MMY covers more
b. MMY covers fewer
c. They cover an equal number
d. MMY used to cover more but now covers fewer
8. Educational and Psychological Measurement, Psychometrika, and Personnel Psychology are
all examples of what type of source of information about tests?
a. textbooks on testing
b. electronic listings
c. journals
d. comprehensive listings
9. One of the sources of information about tests is “books about single tests.” What is the
major advantage of this source of information?
a. easy electronic access
b. in-depth coverage of a single test
c. several parallel reviews of a test
d. up-to-date information about scoring services for the test
10. From an entry in TIP you should be able to determine all of the following EXCEPT:
a. the test’s publisher
b. the test’s author
c. the test’s year of publication
d. the test’s degree of reliability
11. The Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures includes tests that typically
appear in ______.
a. journal articles
b. publishers’ catalogs
c. Internet sources
d. newspaper reports
12. Which of the following should NOT be used to determine the quality of a particular test?
a. other test users
b. publisher’s catalogs
c. test reviews
d. book about the test
13. The most immediate result obtained from a test is the ______.
a. raw score
b. percentile
c. z-score
d. standard score
14. What important property sets the ratio scale apart from the interval scale?
a. The ratio scale has a true zero point.
b. The ratio scale has accurate rankings.
c. The ratio scale has equally spaced intervals.
d. The ratio scale has quantification.
15. What is the basic definition of a z-score? (M is the mean, S is the standard deviation and
X is a score for the variable.)
a. (X - M)/SD
b. (M - X)/S
c. S/(X - M)
d. (X – M) + S
16. The 25th percentile indicates the point in a distribution _____ which 25% of the cases fall.
a. below
b. above
c. between
d. at
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