Professor Plum Devises a New Personality Test and Administers It

question 129

Multiple Choice

Professor Plum devises a new personality test and administers it to a large and representative group of people, finding a wide distribution of scores on the test. Two months later he administers a second form of the same test to the same people and finds that most people receive almost the same score they had the first time. He should conclude that the test has

• A) high reliability and high validity.
• B) high reliability and unknown validity.
• C) unknown reliability and high validity.
• D) unknown reliability and unknown validity.

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Definitions:

Outcomes

The results or consequences of actions taken in a particular situation.

Subjective Measures

Evaluations based on personal judgments rather than objective criteria, often used in assessments of performance or satisfaction.

Feedback

Information provided regarding aspects of one's performance or behavior, used as a basis for improvement or change.

Career Planning

The ongoing process of setting personal and professional goals and creating a pathway to achieve them, often involving considerations of education, training, and work experiences.