Assessment Jeopardy questions

Question 1

What is the definition of reliability?

Answer 1

The consistency of a measure

Question 2

What type of reliability concerns the consistency between two people?

Answer 2

Inter-rater reliability

Question 3

True or false: Ethics are the same as laws

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What is the definition of validity?

Answer 4

The measure assesses what it is supposed to measure

Question 5

What is the average of the psychometric distribution?

Answer 5

The mean

Question 6

True or false: Grade and age-based norms are easy to use and understand

Answer 6

False: they are often misinterpreted as reflecting the age or grade a child is at rather than understanding that they provide information about whether a child is below the age or grade level we would expect for their current age or grade

Question 7

Which right is the right to determine what information is shared?

Answer 7

The right to privacy

Question 8

Which type of validity determines whether the midterm assesses the material you’ve learned in class?

Answer 8

Content validity

Question 9

What is the potential range of a correlation coefficient?

Answer 9

+ or -1

Question 10

What level does a clinician with a master’s degree have for accessing assessment measures?

Answer 10

Level B

Question 11

Reliability is a ___ but not ___ condition for validity

Answer 11

Necessary; sufficient

Question 12

What right is the right to keep information private from others?

Answer 12

Right to confidentiality

Question 13

What type of validity means clients feel like they know what they are being asked about (i.e., does the measure seem to ask what it says it does)

Answer 13

Face validity

Question 14

What type of scale is a Likert-type questionnaire where responses are “never, sometimes, often”?

Answer 14

Ordinal - rank order

Question 15

True or False: The norming sample doesn’t matter as long as the measure demonstrates good reliability and validity

Answer 15

False: If the norming sample is not representative of your client, then the reliability and validity evidence may not apply to your client

Question 16

Which type of reliability concerns giving a measure at two different points in time?

Answer 16

Test-retest reliability

Question 17

What is the right to determine with whom information is shared?

Answer 17

The right to confidentiality

Question 18

Which type of validity concerns predicting some outcome for a measure?

Answer 18

Criterion-related validity

Question 19

Why do we use standard scores?

Answer 19

Raw scores are meaningless without context

Question 20

What influences a decision whether to over- or under-identify clients at risk for suicide?

Answer 20

Consequences of the decision made as a result of the assessment

Question 21

Which type of reliability concerns how well all items of a measure correlate with one another and with the total scale?

Answer 21

Internal consistency

Question 22

Which right concerns keeping assessment measures secure?

Answer 22

The right to confidentiality

Question 23

Which type of validity is demonstrated by showing measure of personality is not related to shoe size?

Answer 23

Discriminant validity

Question 24

In what type of distribution are mean, median and mode the same?

Answer 24

A normal distribution

Question 25

True or false: It would be acceptable to use a less expensive measure that has somewhat lower reliability and validity estimates than a measure that is more expensive with stronger reliability and validity estimates

Answer 25

True: incremental utility says that at times we at times we may use instruments that have relatively lower reliability/validity estimates but that are more easily accessible/less expensive than a measure with stronger evidence of reliability and validity.