If a Researcher Wants to Examine Whether a Test Is

question 13

Multiple Choice

If a researcher wants to examine whether a test is reliable over a reasonable time period,he or she might

• A)administer the test to the same people at two different points in time and calculate a correlation coefficient between the scores taken at time one and the scores taken at time two.
• B)devise different forms of the test that measure the same general content and correlate the scores of each test with each other.
• C)allow the test to be judged by several different individuals who all agree on what the test is designed to measure.
• D)break the test into two sections and correlate the two sections with each other.

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