A Test Developer Asks Five Clinicians Who Are Experts in Depression

question 7

Multiple Choice

A test developer asks five clinicians who are experts in depression to rank 100 depressed clients on a 1 to 5 scale from minor depression to severe depression. The rankings are then correlated with test scores on a new test of depression. What kind of validity is being measured?

• A) Experimental
• B) Concurrent
• C) Predictive
• D) Construct
• E) Convergent

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Definitions:

MRP

Marginal Revenue Product, which is the additional revenue generated from employing one more unit of a resource.

Productivity

A measure of the efficiency of production, often expressed as the ratio of output to input within a specific period.

Marginal Revenue Product

The additional revenue a firm generates from employing one more unit of input, such as labor or capital.

Productivity

An evaluation of how effectively a person, machine, factory, or system transforms inputs into valuable outputs.