Three of the Following Strategies Are Likely to Increase the Reliability

question 79

Multiple Choice

Three of the following strategies are likely to increase the reliability of a classroom assessment instrument. Which one is not likely to do so?

• A)Give the same instructions to everyone about how to complete the assessment tasks.
• B)Decide on the specific criteria you will use to evaluate students' responses to each task.
• C)Make sure that students know exactly what they are being asked to do.
• D)Incorporate knowledge of students' previous achievement levels into judgments about their current performance.

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Definitions:

Type II Error

A statistical error that occurs when a hypothesis test fails to reject a false null hypothesis.

Sample Size

The number of observations or replicates included in a statistical sample.

Significance Level

The threshold for rejecting the null hypothesis, representing the probability of committing a Type I error if the null hypothesis is actually true.

One-Tailed Test

A statistical test where the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution, used when testing for a direction in the relationship between variables.