If Traditional Measures of Reliability Are Applied to a Criterion-Referenced

question 28

Multiple Choice

If traditional measures of reliability are applied to a criterion-referenced test,the reliability estimate will likely be

• A) spuriously low.
• B) spuriously high.
• C) exactly zero.
• D) None of these

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