Ishmael and Aliyah Were Enrolled in Different Sections of the Same

question 7

Multiple Choice

Ishmael and Aliyah were enrolled in different sections of the same course. When Aliyah was taking her mid-term exam, there was a lecture being held in the next room. This distracted her and made it difficult for her to concentrate on her exam. When Ishmael wrote his mid-term exam, the room next door was empty and he had no distractions. In this example, the administration of the mid-term exam for this course

• A) did not have high test-retest reliability.
• B) was not standardised across the two course sections.
• C) would have poor construct validity.
• D) did not have adequate test norms.

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