The Publisher of a Standardized Test of Reading Comprehension Gives

question 24

Multiple Choice

The publisher of a standardized test of reading comprehension gives the test to the same group of students on two different occasions.The publisher computes the correlation coefficient between the two sets of scores and obtains a coefficient of .93.Teachers who read this information in the test manual should conclude that the test has:

• A)high validity.
• B)low validity.
• C)high reliability.
• D)low reliability.

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