A New Assessment Tool Does a Good Job of Differentiating

question 65

Multiple Choice

A new assessment tool does a good job of differentiating those people who later will be depressed and those people who will not be depressed.It also produces results similar to those of other tools for measuring depression.Therefore,the new assessment tool has:

• A) good predictive validity and good content validity.
• B) good predictive validity but poor content validity.
• C) poor predictive validity and poor content validity.
• D) poor predictive validity and good content validity.

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Definitions:

Independent Samples

Groups in a study or experiment that are randomly assigned and do not influence each other.

Any Number

A mathematical concept referring to any quantity or value, which can be whole, fractional, real, or complex.

Effect Size

A measure to quantify the difference between two groups in a study, providing insight into the importance of the findings.

Distributions Of Scores

Refers to the way in which scores or values are spread across different levels or categories in a dataset.