The Consistency of Results Across Items Within a Test Is

question 13

Multiple Choice

The consistency of results across items within a test is referred to as ____ reliability.

• A)inter-rater
• B)test-retest
• C)parallel-forms
• D)internal consistency

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Definitions:

Case Law

The collection of past legal decisions written by courts, which law later courts use as authoritative guidance in similar cases.

Legal Positivism

The school of jurisprudence which holds that because society requires authority, a legal and authoritarian hierarchy should exist. When a law is made, therefore, obedience is expected because authority created it.

Natural Law

A school of jurisprudence that recognizes the existence of higher law, or law that is morally superior to human laws.

Stare Decisis

Latin for “standing by the decision”; a principle stating that rulings made in higher courts are binding precedent for lower courts.