DrWalsh Has Designed a Test to Measure Eleventh-Graders' Knowledge of American

question 273

Multiple Choice

Dr.Walsh has designed a test to measure eleventh-graders' knowledge of American history.To ensure that the test represents American eleventh-graders,he is standardizing the test by:

• A) correlating test-takers' scores on two halves of the test.
• B) correlating test-takers' scores with their current high school GPA.
• C) administering it to a representative sample of American eleventh-graders.
• D) assessing whether test-takers' scores are distributed in a normal curve.

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