A Psychologist Has Developed a New Test to Measure the Verbal

question 28

Multiple Choice

A psychologist has developed a new test to measure the verbal ability of third graders. To determine the range of scores (and what is a good and bad score) , he gives the test to 10,000 third graders. In the future, he will compare the performance of others to this reference group. This process of determining meaningful scores establishes testing

• A) criteria.
• B) validity.
• C) reliability.
• D) norms.

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