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Chapter 15 - Reliability and validity: Evaluating

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This activity contains 10 questions.

Internal reliability is:

about the increase or decrease in scores over time.

about how a single individual's scores remain identical.

about how consistently all of the items in a scale measure the concept in
question.
about the consistency of a measure taken at two different points in time.

Which one of these characteristics would you expect not to give high test-
retest reliability?

Intelligence.
Dyslexia.
Religious beliefs.
Attention.

Complete the following statement.

The better the internal reliability then:

the higher the correlation between that measure and other variables.
the lower the maximum correlation of that test with any other variable.
the more likely the test is measuring what it is intended to measure.

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none of these.

Cronbach's alpha reliability is:

an average of all possible split-half reliabilities.

the correlation of half of the items with the total participants.
the correlation of each item with the sum of the items.
none of these.

Correlating between different versions of a test is known as what?

Objectivity.
Alternate forms reliability.
Test-retest reliability.
Split-half reliability.

If a lecturer wanted to replace your current examinations on research

methods with this multiple choice test, the lecturer could correlate your
multiple choice scores with your marks from the written exam also sat by
you today. If the two sets of scores correlated well the lecturer could be
fairly confident that this multiple choice test had good what?

Face validity.
Concurrent validity.
Content validity.
Predictive validity.

A measure which is capable of differentiating between one group of

participants from another group of participants on a particular construct may
have good what?

Discriminant validity.
Predictive validity.
Known-groups validity.
Convergent validity.

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Using different methods of collecting data, different sources of evidence,

different tests and in some cases different interviewers, is known as what?

Triangulation.
Convergent validity.
Reliability.
Transferability.

Choose the incorrect statement.

Reliability and validity are not inherent characteristics of measures.

A measure that is valid for one purpose may not be valid for another purpose.

Creating a new measure using item-analysis procedures would usually be

followed by assessing the reliability and validity of the measure.
Reliability and validity should not be affected by the context and purpose of the
measure.

Why should tests used in clinical settings have higher levels of reliability and
validity than those used in research studies?

Ideally the measures should have the same reliability and validity.

Because there are smaller samples used in clinical settings.

Because they are used to assess individuals.

Because measures in research settings are less valuable and useful than those
in clinical settings.

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