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:

"Teachers"

"Teachers" are individuals who educate or instruct others, often in academic contexts, but also in any scenario where knowledge, skills, or values are imparted.

Confederates

Individuals who appear to be participants in a study but are actually part of the research team, used to manipulate social situations as part of the experimental design.

Social Pressure Experiment

A study designed to assess how individuals' behaviors, attitudes, or beliefs are influenced by the real or imagined presence or standards of others.

Perception

The cognitive process of interpreting sensory information to understand and interact with the environment.