lecture 6

Question 1

rules for translation human perceptions and thoughts to numbers

Answer 1

quantification rules

Question 2

what is a systematic process of assigning numbers to characteristics

Answer 2

measurements

Question 3

process of forming judgements and making decisions based on a variety of measurements

Answer 3

evaluation

Question 4

any systematic deviation between the results of a study and the “truth”

Answer 4

scientific bias

Question 5

what type of test bias favors one group over the other

Answer 5

content bias

Question 6

type of bias that results rom a variety of external factors that influence test performance

Answer 6

testing situation bias

Question 7

who pioneered intelligence testing

Answer 7

Alfred Binet

Question 8

who is the pioneer of modern statistics

Answer 8

karl pearson

Question 9

what is psychometrics

Answer 9

a discipline focused on the theory and application of psychological measurement

Question 10

what is the item response theory

Answer 10

a paradigm for item analysis used in test scoring and construction that does not assume that all items are equally difficult

Question 11

what is computerized adaptive testing

Answer 11

allows for adjusting item difficulty to the ability level of an individual

Question 12

rationale for developing different levels of measurement

Answer 12

same number can represent different characteristics

Question 13

what type of variable is drink size

Answer 13

ordinal

Question 14

what measurement feature exists if the difference between two numeric values represents the same degree of difference in a measured characteristic

Answer 14

equal intervals

Question 15

what does it mean to have an absolute 0

Answer 15

meaning 0 truly signifies the absence of a measured characteristic

Question 16

what type of mode of measurement is a likert scale

Answer 16

ordinal

Question 17

what is the classical test theory

Answer 17

a paradigm aimed to understand the reliability of tests that states that every measurement consists of the true score and a measurement error

Question 18

what is measurement error

Answer 18

difference between observed score and true score

observed score - true score

Question 19

it characterizes the extent to which a measurement is repeatable and free of measurement error

Answer 19

measurement reliability

Question 20

focuses on consistency and reproducibility of a measurement (keyword: consistent results)

Answer 20

measurement reliability

Question 21

describe an objective measurement

Answer 21

features clear and explicit scoring schemes

Question 22

described as how well the measurement assesses the intended construct

Answer 22

measurement validity

Question 23

what type of validity is whether a measure successfully does what it is intended to do

Answer 23

construct validity

Question 24

type of validity when measures that should theoretically be related actually turn out to be

Answer 24

convergent validity

Question 25

type of validity where scores that should not be related are not actually related

Answer 25

divergent validity

Question 26

type of validity how well a measure represents the whole domain it seeks to measure

Answer 26

content validity

Question 27

type of validity is a degree to which a measure intended to assess a given construct correlates with established measures of similar constructs

Answer 27

criterion validity