What Does Research Show About the Degree of Use of Consequential

question 30

Multiple Choice

What does research show about the degree of use of consequential validity by test authors and publishers?

• A) It is basically ignored.
• B) It is used with achievement tests but not with other tests.
• C) It is used with all types of tests except achievement tests.
• D) It is widely used with all types of tests.

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Definitions:

Yearly Income

The total pre-tax earnings received by an individual or household over the course of one year from all sources combined.

SST

Total Sum of Squares, a measure used in statistics to quantify the variance in a dataset.

SSE

Sum of Squares due to Error, a measure of the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model, reflecting the unexplained variance within the model.

Expected Yearly Income

An estimation of the amount of money one is anticipated to earn over the course of a year.