PSY3041- Quiz 2
Have you been studying? It’s time to find out if it was enough, as we delve into this exam on psychology – which looks at the science of behaviour and mind in this multifaceted discipline. How many can you get right?
- 1.Q1. You are interested in developing a test for social adjustment in a college fraternity or sorority. You begin by interviewing persons who had graduated from college after having been a member of a fraternity or sorority for at least 2 years. Which stage of test development BEST describes the stage you are in?
- A.
A. the test-tryout stage
- B.
B. the pilot work stage
- C.
C. the test construction stage
- D.
D. none of these
- 2.Q2. A test item written in a multiple choice format has three elements. Which of these following is NOT on of those elements?
- A.
A. foil
- B.
B. stem
- C.
C. leaf
- D.
D. correct option
- 3.Q3. As part of the test development process, a test revision may entail
- A.
A. re-wording, deletion, or development of new items
- B.
B. development of a new edition of a test
- C.
C. reprinting of a test
- D.
D. both a and b
- 4.Q4. Ideally, psychological or educational tests are revised
- A.
A. every decade
- B.
B. when the test is no longer useful
- C.
C. as a function of annual test sales
- D.
D. none of these
- 5.Q5. An item bank is
- A.
A. a test item not currently in use
- B.
B. the optimum combination of reliability and validity in an item
- C.
C. a set of items from which a test can be constructed
- D.
D. a statistical “Keogh plan” for data relating to high and low scores on a test
- 6.Q6. Ideally, the first draft of a test should include at least how many items as compared with the final version of the test?
- A.
A. about twice the number of the final version
- B.
B. about half the number of the final version
- C.
C. about three times the number of the final version
- D.
D. roughly the same number as the final version
- 7.Q7. In creating a test designed to measure personality constructs, the test developer’s first step would BEST be to
- A.
A. determine which item would lead to socially desirable responses
- B.
B. create a large pool of potential items
- C.
C. define the construct or constructs being measured
- D.
D. select a representative sample of test takers for test tryout
- 8.Q8. A close friend, who is now a beauty school dropout is hear to complain: “I spent all night studying “Shampoo” for the final examination and there was not a single question on that subject!” As a budding expert in testing an assessment you hear that complaint as:
- A.
A. “I have a problem with that test’s content validity!”
- B.
B. “There was excessive error variance in the test administration procedures!”
- C.
C. “The instructor should have paid more attention to the test’s construct validity!”
- D.
D. “Now I am going to have to reconsider a career as a tanning technician!”
- 9.Q9. With regard to the test revision process, it typically
- A.
A. takes about a year to complete
- B.
B. includes all of the steps the initial test development includes
- C.
C. is much less expensive than the original development of a test
- D.
D. all of these
- 10.Q10. Factor analysis can help the test developer
- A.
A. to eliminate or revise items that do not load on the predicted factor
- B.
B. to identify whether the test items appear to be measuring the same construct
- C.
C. both a and b
- D.
D. none of these
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