If You Administer a Test to a Group of Students

question 35

Multiple Choice

If you administer a test to a group of students and then retest them with an alternate form of the same test, you should find similar scores. This finding would suggest that _____________.

• A) you have not achieved a high degree of reliability
• B) your test is fairly reliable
• C) you have achieved a high degree of validity
• D) your test has low validity

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Definitions:

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