In Evaluating the Reliability of a Measure to Be Used

question 20

Multiple Choice

In evaluating the reliability of a measure to be used in program evaluation, evaluators

• A) recognize that means of groups are more stable than the scores of individual assessments.
• B) realize that reliability is not very important in the area of program evaluation.
• C) must choose between having a valid measure or having a reliable measure; they can't have both.
• D) know that surveys are probably more reliable than program effectiveness indexes based on program records.

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Definitions:

Functional Morpheme

A type of morpheme that provides information about grammatical relationships between words in a sentence, rather than contributing to the core meaning of a word.

Content Morpheme

A type of morpheme that carries semantic content and contributes to the meaning of a word, as opposed to grammatical function.

Functional Phoneme

The smallest unit of sound in a language that can change the meaning of a word, contributing to the linguistic function of spoken language.

Morpheme

The smallest significant unit of meaning in a word (e.g., the word boys has two morphemes, boy and -s).