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Reliability and Validity of Psychometric Tests Flashcards

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What is a psychometric test? What are some general weaknesses of them?

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Lecture 2, slide 4

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How are IDs treated in psychometric tests and why?

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Lecture 2, slide 5

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What are some psychometric tests that are designed to be susceptible to IDs?

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Lecture 2, slide 6

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What is standardization? Why is it done? What are some things to consider when standardizing a test?

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Lecture 2, slide 7-9

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What is validity?

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Lecture 2, slide 11

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What are some methods for studying validity?

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Lecture 2, slide 12

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What is content validity? Give an example?

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Lecture 2, slide 13

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What is criterion-related validity? What are some of the different types of criterion-related validity? What is concurrent validity? Give an example of deviance?

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Lecture 2, slide 14

-types: concurrent and predictive

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What is predictive validity? Why do you need to be cautious when interpreting it?

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Lecture 2, slide 15

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What is incremental validity? What is it used for? Give an example.

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Lecture 2, slide 16

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What is construct validity?

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Lecture 2, slide 17

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What are the steps in describing a construct? Give ‘aggressiveness in school children’ as an example.

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Lecture 2, slide 18-21

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What are the steps to establish construct validity?

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Lecture 2, slide 22

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What is reliability? Why may it be hard to determine?

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Lecture 2, slide 24

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What are systematic and unsystematic errors? What is error variance?

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What are some sources of error variance?

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Lecture 2, slide 26

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What is time sampling errors? What is test-retest reliability (how do you account for time sampling errors)?

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Lecture 2, slide 27

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How do you account for content sampling errors?

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Lecture 2, slide 28

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What is the best procedure for estimating reliability?

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Lecture 2, slide 29

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How may content heterogeneity arise? How can it be accounted for?

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Lecture 2, slide 30

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What is inter-rater (inter-scorer) reliability? What does this tell us and what does it not tell us??

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Lecture 2, slide 31

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How may a reliability coefficient be interpreted?

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Lecture 2, slide 32

23
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How do you increase reliability?

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Lecture 2, slide 33

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What are the different types of reliability coefficients and what do they account for?

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Lecture 2, slide 34-35

25
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Summarise the different types of reliability.

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Lecture 2, slide 36

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