In Order of Descending Importance, Comment on the Factors That

question 15

Essay

In order of descending importance, comment on the factors that explain the relative ease of the conquest of the great indigenous empires.

Understand the concept of validity coefficient and its significance in test assessment.

Recognize the importance of reliability as a prerequisite for validity.

Understand the concept of content validity ratio and its application.

Describe the process and importance of item analysis in assessing construct validity.

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Definitions:

Kitty Genovese

Kitty Genovese was a young woman whose 1964 murder in New York City became famous due to the widely reported (though later questioned) lack of intervention by numerous witnesses.

Reciprocal Altruism

A behavior in which an organism acts in a manner that temporarily reduces its fitness while increasing another organism's fitness, with the expectation that the action will be reciprocated in the future.

Reciprocity

A mutual exchange of privileges or interactions between two parties, where each party provides benefits to the other with a sense of obligation.

Pluralistic Ignorance

A type of misunderstanding that occurs when members of a group don’t realize that the other members share their perception (often, their uncertainty about how to react to a situation). As a result, each member wrongly interprets the others’ inaction as reflecting their better understanding of the situation.