Which of the following is FALSE?
a. If a measure is reliable, it is not heavily influenced by transitory factors that cause random errors.
b. If an item lacks correlation with other scale items measuring the same construct there is evidence that the item does not belong and should be deleted.
c. Systematic error is due to temporary aspects of the person or measurement situation, which affects the measurement in irregular ways.
d. Reliability is necessary, but not sufficient, for establishing the validity of a measure.
e. If a set of items all measures the same construct, the responses to the items should be correlated.
Question 2Which of the following is TRUE?
a. A valid measure is reliable and vice versa.
b. Construct validity is also called face validity.
c. In order for construct validity to be established, the measure must be reliable, or consistent, and must be related to other measures in appropriate ways.
d. Both a and c.
e. Both b and c.
Question 3When we repeat a measurement on an individual or group of individuals and do not get the same score as the first time we did the measurement (assuming the characteristic being measured has not changed), a __________ is present.
a. systematic error
b. researcher error
c. random error
d. scaling error
e. marginal error
Question 4__________ validity is concerned with the degree to which a measure behaves as it should in relation to measures of theoretically related constructs.
a. Convergent
b. Nomological
c. Discriminant
d. Construct
e. Predictive
Question 5Which of the following statements about content validity is TRUE?
a. It is sometimes called face validity.
b. It is the most difficult type of validity to establish
c. It lies at the heart of scientific progress.
d. Both a and b.
e. a, b, and c.
Question 6Which of the following is FALSE?
a. Reliability is more difficult to determine than validity.
b. A reliable measure may or may not be valid.
c. If a measure (Xo) is not reliable, it cannot have construct validity.
d. Determining that a respondent's score on one part of the scale correlates with his or her score on other parts of the scale shows interjudge reliability.
e. Both a and d.
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