Which of the following is the most important characteristic of a good criterion measure?
a. Practicality of the instrument
b. Validity of the scores in assessing the tasks to be predicted
c. Usability of the measure
Ques. 2Suppose all students who obtained aptitude scores below 10 were refused admission to college level math courses. For what percentage of them would have this have been a poor decision?
a. 12
b. 37
c. 63
d. 100
Ques. 3Which pair of the tests has the highest positive correlation?
a. Mathematical Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning
b. Mathematical Reasoning and Spatial Reasoning
c. Verbal Reasoning and Spatial Reasoning
Ques. 4What index quantifies the degree to which two variables are related?
a. Standard error of measurement
b. Standard error of estimate
c. Correlation coefficient
d. Coefficient of relationship
Ques. 5Indirect requests, such as a child saying, That ice cream looks good when she is
hungry, relate most to the aspect of language called
a. morphemes
b. phonemes
c. syntax
d. pragmatics
Ques. 6Evidence on the internal structure of an assessment instrument concerns how the tasks on the instrument are
a. structured from low to high difficulty levels.
b. interrelated in measuring the same construct.
c. organized into sections according to format of task.
Ques. 7When a 3-year-old says, I seed the deerzes at the zoo her errors actually reveal her
growing knowledge of
a. phonology
b. pragmatics
c. syntax
d. morphology
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