A Psychologist Tests a Group of Students with an Intelligence

question 53

Multiple Choice

A psychologist tests a group of students with an intelligence test. After 6 months she retests the same group of students with the same intelligence test and finds that there is a high correlation (+.85) between each student's pair of scores over the 6-month interval. Based on her findings we can conclude that the intelligence test has

• A) good face validity.
• B) poor interjudge reliability.
• C) inadequate construct validity.
• D) good test-retest reliability.
• E) poor internal consistency.

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