An employment test required a high level of reading proficiency, although the job itself did not require high level reading skills. Persons who did not do well on the test had no chance of getting the job. The score validity of this test was negatively impacted by
a. construct underrepresentation. c. construct convergence.
b. construct-irrelevant variance. d. construct divergence.
Ques. 2Counterbalanced designs
a. give the same treatments to all subjects.
b. may involve many groups and treatments.
c. rotate intact groups.
d. a and c
e. All of these are true.
Ques. 3If the reliability coefficient for a set of test scores is .90, we know that
a. 90 of the variance is true variance; 10 is unknown.
b. 90 of the variance is true variance; 10 is error.
c. 90 of the variance is true variance; 10 is reliable.
d. 81 of the variance is true variance; 19 is error.
e. 81 of the variance is true variance; 19 is unknown.
Ques. 4A research study has a design with two groups receiving a pretest, one of which receives treatment, and two groups who are not pretested, one of which receives treatment. This is a
a. counterbalanced design. c. Solomon design.
b. multiple group pretest-posttest design. d. 2 x 2 factorial design.
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