Assess/Eval

Question 1

Specificity

Answer 1

how accurate does a test need to be to correctly identify those without a disorder

Question 2

Sensitivity

Answer 2

how accurate does a test need to be to correctly identify those with a disorder

Question 3

Construct Validity

Answer 3

how well does the test measure what it was intended to measure

Question 4

Content Validity

Answer 4

whether the items on the test are representative of what is being assessed

Question 5

Criterion Validity

Answer 5

correlation between the test with other tests thought to measure the same thing

Question 6

Concurrent Validity

Answer 6

how well a test agrees with other established tests that measure the same concept

Question 7

Inter-rater reliability

Answer 7

the agreement between two or more different examiners when giving a test to the same person

Question 8

Intra-rater reliability

Answer 8

consistency of one examiner receiving the same result after completing an assessment several times

Question 9

Test-retest reliability

Answer 9

administering a test several times to one person and computing the correlation to assess the test’s stability

Question 10

Standard error of measurement

Answer 10

degree of uncertainty about a test’s reliability and one’s amount of confidence that the scores on a test are accurate

Question 11

Confidence interval

Answer 11

statistical range within which a “true score” lies

Question 12

Mean

Answer 12

the average of a group of numbers calculated by adding all the numbers together and dividing the sum by the number of items

Question 13

Standard deviation

Answer 13

indicates how spread out data points are in comparison to the mean