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_______ is an issue especially in projective or subjective tests in which there is no one correct answer.


A) Internal validity
B) Test-retest reliability
C) Scorer reliability
D) Item homogeneity

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Which of the following pieces of information is NOT required to use the Taylor-Russell tables?


A) Criterion validity coefficient
B) Selection ratio
C) Base rate
D) Reliability

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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_______ validity refers to the extent to which a test appears to be valid.


A) Content
B) Criterion
C) Construct
D) Face

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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The extent to which tests or test items sample what they are supposed to measure is related to the measure's _______ validity.


A) content
B) construct
C) criterion
D) concurrent

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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San Antonio, Texas, has a system in which the names of the top three applicants for promotion are submitted to the Chief of Police who then selects one of the three to be the new Captain. This system uses:


A) the rule of three
B) top down selection
C) a passing score
D) banding

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Of the available approaches to making a hiring decision, the _______ method results in the highest levels of adverse impact.


A) multiple hurdle
B) top-down selection
C) passing score
D) banding

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Barnum statements are most associated with:


A) known-group validity
B) face validity
C) concurrent validity
D) construct validity

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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What are the three types of criterion validity?

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Test-retest reliability taps ____ stability.


A) form
B) temporal
C) item
D) score

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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What are three important aspects in determining the fairness of a test?

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When computing internal reliability, _____ is used for dichotomous items and _____ is used for interval and ratio items.


A) coefficient alpha / K-R 20
B) coefficient alpha / Spearman-Brown
C) K-R 20 / coefficient alpha
D) Spearman-Brown / coefficient alpha

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Even though a test is both reliable and valid, it is not necessarily useful. The _______ were/was developed to determine the amount of money that an organization would save if it used a particular test to select employees.


A) Taylor-Russell tables
B) Expectancy charts
C) Lawshe tables
D) Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser utility formula

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Single-group validity is very rare and is usually the result of _______.


A) small sample sizes
B) methodological problems
C) both a and b
D) none of the above

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Even though a test is both reliable and valid, it is not necessarily useful. The _______ were created to determine the probability that a particular applicant will be successful.


A) Taylor-Russell tables
B) Expectancy charts
C) Lawshe tables
D) Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser utility formula

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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In industry, _____ is used to establish the content validity of selection tests or test batteries.


A) job analysis
B) correlational analysis
C) job evaluation
D) an experiment

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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_______ is based on the assumption that tests that predict a particular component of one job should predict performance on the same component for another job.


A) Content validity
B) Validity generalization
C) Synthetic validity
D) Face validity

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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What are the five methods for determining test validity?

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_______ validity is a measure which refers to the extent to which a test score is related to some measure of job performance.


A) Content
B) Construct
C) Criterion
D) Concurrent

E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

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The extent to which a test found valid for a job in one location is valid for the same job in another location refers to the concept of _______.


A) the cross over effect
B) temporal stability
C) validity generalization
D) known group validity

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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When the criterion validity coefficient is ____, and the selection ratio is ____, a test will have the most utility in selecting successful employees.


A) large / large
B) large / small
C) small / small
D) small / large

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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