In Developing the National Certification Exam for Counselors, the Test

question 32

Multiple Choice

In developing the national certification exam for counselors, the test developers wanted to assure adequate validity and reliability. For the following items, place the letter that represents the kind of validity or reliability described.
-All the possible split-half correlations are correlated and then the mean, or average, of all of these scores is obtained.

• A)Content validity
• B)Concurrent validity
• C)Construct validity
• D)Discriminant validity
• E)Parallel or equivalent form reliability
• F)Internal consistency
• G)Predictive validity
• H)Odd-even reliability
• I)Test-retest reliability

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