If You Were Using a Standardized Test to Determine Your

question 48

Multiple Choice

If you were using a standardized test to determine your students' aptitude for science and found that students who took the test a second time got scores quite different from those they received on the first attempt, you would question the test's

• A) internal consistency.
• B) standardization.
• C) predictive validity.
• D) reliability.

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