Research Methods Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Tests that are designed to measure the degree of learning that has taken place after a person has been exposed to a specific learning experience

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Achievement Tests

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Tests that focus on information acquired through the informal learning that goes on in life

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Aptitude Tests

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Gathering and integrating data to make educational evaluations

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Assessment

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A formula that provides an estimate of the reliability of a homogeneous test or an estimate of the reliability of each dimension in a multidimensional test

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Coefficient Alpha

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Validity evidence based on the relationship between test scores and criterion scores obtained at the same time

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Concurrent Evidence

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Degree to which the test works well in practice and does not have negative or abnormal social and psychological consequences

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Consequential Validity

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Validity evidence based on a judgment of the degree to which the items, tasks, or questions on a test adequately represent the construct domain of interest

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Content-Related Evidence

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Validity evidence based on the relationship between the focal test scores and independent measures of the same construct

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Convergent Evidence

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The standard or benchmark that you want to predict accurately on the basis of the test scores

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Criterion

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Validity evidence based on the extent to which scores from a test can be used to predict or infer performance on some criterion such as a test or future performance

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Criterion-Related Evidence

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A frequently used name for what Lee Cronbach called “coefficient alpha”

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Cronbach’s Alpha

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Tests that are designed to identify where a student is having difficulty with an academic skill

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Diagnostic Tests

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Evidence that the scores on your focal test are not highly related to the scores from other tests that are designed to measure theoretically different constructs

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Discriminant Evidence

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The consistency of a group of individuals’ scores on alternative forms of a test measuring the same thing

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Equivalent-Forms Reliability

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The difference between true scores and observed scores

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Error

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A statistical procedure that analyzes correlations among test items and tells you the number of factors present. It tells you whether the test is unidimensional or multidimensional

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Factor Analysis

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In test validity, refers to how well the different items in a test measure the same construct or trait

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Homogeneity

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A unidimensional test in which all the items measure a single construct

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Homogeneous Test

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The ability to think abstractly and learn readily from experience

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Intelligence

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The consistency with which the items on a test measure a single construct

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Internal Consistency

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The degree of agreement or consistency between two or more scorers, judges, or raters

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Interscorer Reliability

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A scale of measurement that has equal intervals of distances between adjacent numbers

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Interval Scale

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Evidence that groups that are known to differ on the construct do differ on the test in the hypothesized direction

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Known Groups Evidence

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Assigning symbols or numbers to something according to a specific set of rules

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Measurement

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One of the primary sources of information about published tests
Mental Measurements Yearbook
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The specific group for which the test publisher or researcher provides evidence for test validity and reliability
Nominal Scale
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A rank-order scale of measurement
Ordinal Scale