If You Want to Use a Test to Measure Students

question 32

Multiple Choice

If you want to use a test to measure students' self-concepts, and if you are concerned about the test's construct validity, you are concerned about whether the

• A) items on the test accurately reflect a particular body of knowledge or skill.
• B) test can be used to predict student performance on a task in the future.
• C) test's norms were developed using an appropriate standardization group.
• D) test can identify students with strong self-concepts and those with weak self-concepts.

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Definitions:

Conversion Disorder

A psychological disorder characterized by neurological symptoms, such as paralysis or blindness, that are not attributable to any medical condition but are associated with psychological factors.

Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

A mental health disorder characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) that the individual feels driven to perform.

Multiple-personality Disorder

Now referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder, it is a psychological condition where two or more distinct and separate identities or personality states are present in, and alternately take control of, an individual.

Psychosis

A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.