How Does the Current Edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological

question 29

Multiple Choice

How does the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing conceptualize validity?

• A)Validity is a non-statistical measure for non-quantitative tests.
• B)Validity should only be assessed when reliability is low.
• C)Validity is a unitary concept that represents all evidence.
• D)Only one type of validity must be high and the others can be low.

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Definitions:

Ingroup

A social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member, often leading to favoritism and loyalty towards the group.

Outgroup

A social group with which an individual does not identify, often leading to them being viewed as "them" in contrast with the "us" of the ingroup.

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person’s mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Explicit Bias

Conscious or deliberate prejudice toward particular groups or individuals based on race, gender, age, or other characteristics.