How Can You Determine Whether a Test Is Standardized

question 185

Multiple Choice

How can you determine whether a test is standardized?

• A) Determine whether the test has a known distribution of scores.
• B) Find out whether all the questions deal with important concepts.
• C) Calculate the correlation between scores on the test and some other measure of behavior.
• D) Determine whether all of its questions are equally difficult.

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