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maximum performance test

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asks the person to do his her best to solve one or more problems, intelligence and achievement tests

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typical performance test

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asks the person to respond to one or more tasks, where the responses are typical for the person. personality or attitude tests

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dimensionality of a test

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is equal to the number of latent attributes (variables) which effects test performance

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latent

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unobserved

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unidimensional test

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test that measures one latent attribute

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multidimensional test

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test that measures more than one latent attribute

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mental test

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consists of cognitive tasks, such as problems and questions

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physical test

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consists of instruments to make somatic or physiological measurements

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a pure power test

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consists of problems that the test taker tries to solve, test taker has ample time to work on each of the test items . emphasis is on measuring the accuracy to solve the problems

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ability test

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sometimes also called aptitude test, is an instrument for measuring a persons best performance in an area that is not explicitly taught in training or educational programs.

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achievement test

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an instrument for measuring performance that is explicitly taught in training and educational programs

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other evaluation mode

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to ask others to evaluate a persons ability to perform a task

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description

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means the the test is only used to describe performances.

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dichotomous scale

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where test takers responses are graded in two ordered categories, that is correct or incorrect

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the ordinance polytomous scale

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where test takers responses are graded in more than two ordered categories, for ex. a correct, partly correct or incorrect answer (or a b c d e )

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a measurement procedure is reactive when

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test takers can deliberately distort their construct value, for ex an unmotivated student who pretends to be highly motivated in a self report school attitude test

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measurement procedure is nonreactive when

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test takers cannot distort their construct value, for ex drivers whose record shows many traffic offences cannot disguise that their record is indicative of a negative attitude towards traffic safety

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relational method

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uses a loose description of the construct that is based on the knowledge of experts or members of the target population

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propotypical method

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asks members of the target population to think of persons having the construct and to write down their behaviour that is typical of the construct

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internal method

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starts with a broad pool of personality or attitude items

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external method

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starts from a broad pool of items and a criterion that has to be predicted (success in job)

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construct method

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starts from an explicit theory, and items are derived from that theory

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facet design method

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does not use an explicit theory, but it starts from a conceptual analysis of the construct

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behavioural facets

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classify types of behaviour

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situational facets

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classified’s the situations where the behaviours appear

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endorsement response scale

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asks the test taker to indicate his her degree of endorsement of the statement

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dichotomous scale

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scale that has only two categories

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ordinal polytomous

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a scale that has more than two ordered categories

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bounded continuous scale

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scale has two end points (bounds)

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indicative item

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item where a high frequency or endorsement response indicates a high level of the construct

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contra indicative item

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is an item where a high frequency or endorsement response indicates a low level of the construct

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concurrent interview

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asks the test taker to think aloud while answering the items

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retrospective interview

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asks the test takers to recollect their thinking after completing the items

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coefficient of identity

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can be applied to assess integrater agreement and intrarater consistency

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response style

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the differential use of the item response scale by different persons, important response styles are ; acquiescence, dissentience, extremity and midpoint response styles

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acquiescence

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is the tendency to agree with an endorsement statement, independently of the content of the statement (yea saying)

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dissentience

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tendency to disagree with an endorsement statement independently of the content of the statement (nay saying)

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extremity response style

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is the tendency to choose extremes of the item response scale

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midpoint response style

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tendency to choose the middle of the response scale

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social desirability

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persons tendency to deceive either oneself or others

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self deception

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tendency to deceive oneself

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impression management

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tendency to deceive others by making a good or bad impression or others

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content validation

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experts evaluate whether the test adequately covers all aspects of the construct

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observed test score

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is computed after the separate test items are scored

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observed test score

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derived from the item scores by taking the unweighted or weighted sum of the item scores

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latent variable score

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is derived from the item responses under the assumption of a latent variable item response model

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item non-response

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means that a test taker did not respond to some of the items of the test

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imputed item score

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score that is substituted for a missing item response

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estimate of parameter

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a value derived from empirical data

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measurement precision information

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applies to the test score of a single person, information is the within person aspect of measurement precision

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measurement precision reliability

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concerns the differentiation of test scores of different test takers from a population

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true test score

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the expected value of the observed test scores of the repeated test administrations in the thought experiment

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error of measurement

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the difference between test taker observed test score and his true score from an abritrary measurement occasion

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a small amount of information (large within person error variance) means

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that test taker observed test score vary widely around his true score across repeated test administrations

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a large amount of information (small within person error variance) means

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that test takers observed test scores do not vary widely around his true score

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parallel tests

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tests that measure the same true score with equal within person error variance and uncorrected errors across hypothetical repeated test administrations for each of the test takers of a population

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classical test theory

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is based on the definitions of test taker j’s true score, his error of measurement, and the generalisation to a randomly selected person from a population of persons

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standard error or measurement of a test

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is the square root of the error variance in the population of persons

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the importance of a lower bound is

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that a high value of lower bound implies that the theoretical reliability is high (Cronbach’s coefficient alpha)

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location of the item score distribution is

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the place of the scale where item scores are centered

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dispersion

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scatter of the item scores

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shape

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form of the distributions

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classical item difficutly

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of a maximum performance item is a parameter that indicates the location fo the item score distribution in a population of persons

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classical item attractiveness

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of a typical performance item is a parameter that indicates the location of the item score distribution in a population of persons

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item p value

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the mean of a dichotomously scored item

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classical item discrimination

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parameter that indicates the extent to which the item differentiates between the true test scores of a population of persons

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the item-rest correlation

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is the product moment correlation between the item scores and the rest scores of the test, where the studied item is deleted

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popularity of a distractor of a multiple choice item

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is the proportion of persons of a population who selected the distractor

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item distractor-rest correlations

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are the product moment of correlations of the separate dichotomous correct answer/distractor variables and the rest scores

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the best thing to look at when you want to make a statement about how well an item discriminates between persons

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at the item rest correlation

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the difference between a correlation and a covariance

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the covariance depends on the measurement scale of the variables. the correlation doesn’t

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which measurements are on the same measurement scale

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variance and covariance

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reliability is

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that part of the variance that is the true-score variance

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the reliability increases as the

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measurement error variance decreases

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the reliability of a test increases as

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the covariances between the items increase

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what are the requirements that parallel tests would need to fulfil?

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the parallel tests must have the same within person error variance for each of the test takers of the population, the errors of measurements of parallel tests must nog be correlated across repeated test administrations, the parallel tests must measure the same true score for each of the test takers of the population

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reliability

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between persons aspect of measurement precision and informs us about the consistency of the test

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validity

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whether a reliable test measures consistently what it is supposed to measure

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