Validity Evidence and Test Item Analysis Quiz

What type of validity is based on the appearance of a test's items?

• Content-Related Validity

• Face Validity

• Criterion-Related Validity

• Construct Validity

Which type of validity assesses whether a test adequately represents the conceptual domain it aims to cover?

• Construct Validity

• Face Validity

• Content-Related Validity

• Criterion-Related Validity

What is a threat to content validity that involves missing important parts of the construct?

• Construct underrepresentation

• Construct-irrelevant variance

• Concurrent Validity

• Predictive Validity

Which type of validity measures how well test scores correspond with an external standard?

• Criterion-Related Validity

• Construct Validity

• Content-Related Validity

• Face Validity

What is the term for a test's ability to predict future performance?

• Concurrent Validity

• Predictive Validity

• Face Validity

• Construct Validity

What is the typical range for validity coefficients in criterion-related validity?

• .10 to .20

• .30 to .40

• .70 to .80

• .50 to .60

Which type of validity evidence is used when there is no agreed criterion to define the trait?

• Content-Related Validity

• Criterion-Related Validity

• Construct Validity

• Face Validity

What does convergent validity indicate?

• Low correlation with unrelated constructs

• High correlation with unrelated constructs

• High correlation with other measures of the same construct

• No correlation with any constructs

What is the purpose of cross-validation in validity studies?

• To ensure the test is easy to score

• To create new test items

• To test the generalizability of a validity study

• To measure item difficulty

What is the ideal difficulty range for most test items?

• 0.10 to 0.20

• 0.70 to 1.00

• 0.50 to 0.90

• 0.30 to 0.70