In Developing the National Certification Exam for Counselors, the Test

question 53

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.
-Students who are graduating from their master's degrees take the test, and, at the same time, their test scores are correlated with professor rankings of how good a student they are.

• 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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Definitions:

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A term historically used to describe people of European descent, though its accuracy and appropriateness in describing ethnicity are debated.