If students at Lincoln High School receive Verbal Aptitude Test (VAT) scores with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 7.6, while students at Washington High School receive VAT scores with a mean of 120 and a standard deviation of 2.
8, we know that
a) students at Washington High School are smarter than students at Lincoln High School
b) individual students at Lincoln High School had more similar VAT scores than did individual students at Washington High School
c) the test may be unfair because of the large difference between scores of Lincoln High School students and Washington High School students
d) there was less variability on the scores received by students at Washington High School
The General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB)
a) includes both verbal and performance tasks
b) is somewhat laborious and complex to administer
c) is not valid for many jobs in which it is used
d) both a and b
A loosely structured group of statistics that can be computed for each item in a test is a(n)
a) test analysis
b) item confirmation
c) test validation
d) item analysis
Evaluations of the adequacy of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery as a measure of multiple abilities have been
a) highly favorable
b) generally positive
c) not very favorable
d) inadequately done
An attempt to identify the basic underlying variables which account for the correlations between actual test scores is done statistically through
a) multiple regression
b) linear modeling
c) factor analysis
d) the correlation coefficient
Researchers have moved toward a unitary definition of validity in which all
validation is _______ validation.
a) construct
b) content
c) criterion-related
d) none of the above
Attempting to measure several distinct abilities, rather than a more general ability, is a feature of the
a) SAT II subject tests
b) Graduate Record Examination subject test
c) Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
d) American College Testing Program
If a large increase on one variable is associated with a large decrease on another variable
a) the variables are highly positively correlated
b) the correlation coefficient will be large and positive
c) the correlation coefficient will be large and negative
d) the correlation coefficient will be small and negative
The Scholastic Assessment Tests and the Graduate Record Examination are
a) accurate predictors of academic success
b) highly reliable
c) extensively researched
d) all of the above
A low base rate makes it likely that you will have many
a) true positives and false negatives
b) true negatives and false positives
c) true negatives and false negatives
d) true positives and false positives
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