How Does the Current Edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological

question 29

Multiple Choice

How does the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing conceptualize validity?

• A)Validity is a non-statistical measure for non-quantitative tests.
• B)Validity should only be assessed when reliability is low.
• C)Validity is a unitary concept that represents all evidence.
• D)Only one type of validity must be high and the others can be low.

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Definitions:

Expected Frequencies

The anticipated count of occurrences in each category of a variable, calculated under a specific hypothesis in a chi-square test.

Shape

Describes the geometric or visual characteristics of an object or distribution, such as symmetry, skewness, or roundness.

Multinomial Experiment

An experiment consisting of a fixed number of trials where each trial has multiple possible outcomes.

Null Hypothesis

A statistical hypothesis that assumes no significant difference or effect exists within a set of given observations or parameters.