Jayesh Has Just Created a New Intelligence Test

question 154

Multiple Choice

Jayesh has just created a new intelligence test.As soon as he is finished designing the test he administers it to a classroom of 300 introductory psychology students and gives them each a score.How meaningful are the scores that Jayesh gives the students?

• A) Meaningful; because he administered it to the entire class the scores can be compared to each other.
• B) Meaningful; because there were probably people of different ethnic origins in the class so, the scores can be assumed to function the same among different people, and the test is standardized.
• C) Not meaningful; because there were probably people of different ethnic origins in the class, a different scoring system must be used for each ethnic group.
• D) Not meaningful; a test would have to be administered to many more people and many people from different ethnic origins before it could be considered standardized.

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