A Measure of Clerical Speed Is Obtained by a Test

question 46

Multiple Choice

A measure of clerical speed is obtained by a test that has respondents alphabetize index cards.The manual for this test cites a split-half reliability coefficient for a single administration of the test of .95.What might you conclude?

• A) The test is highly reliable.
• B) The published reliability estimate is spuriously low and would have been higher had another estimate been used.
• C) The split-half estimate should not have been used in this instance.
• D) Clerical speed is too vague a construct to measure.

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