CPCE Assessment and Testing 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A counselor administers the same test to a client twice within two weeks and obtains very different scores. This most likely indicates a problem with which psychometric property?
- Content validity
- Test-retest reliability (Correct answer)
- Predictive validity
- Construct validity
Correct answer: Test-retest reliability
Test-retest reliability refers to the consistency of scores across repeated administrations over time, so large score differences indicate poor test-retest reliability.
Question 2: Which type of score indicates what percentage of individuals in the normative sample scored at or below a given raw score?
- Stanine
- T-score
- Percentile rank (Correct answer)
- Standard score
Correct answer: Percentile rank
A percentile rank indicates the percentage of people in the norm group who scored at or below that particular score.
Question 3: When a test measures what it claims to measure, it is said to have:
- High reliability
- Face validity
- Construct validity (Correct answer)
- Adequate norming
Correct answer: Construct validity
Construct validity refers to how well a test actually measures the theoretical construct it was designed to assess.
Question 4: A counselor uses a career interest inventory to predict job satisfaction five years later. This is an example of assessing:
- Concurrent validity
- Predictive validity (Correct answer)
- Content validity
- Discriminant validity
Correct answer: Predictive validity
Predictive validity examines how well a test score forecasts a future criterion, such as job satisfaction measured years later.
Question 5: In norm-referenced testing, a student's score is compared to:
- A predetermined mastery cutoff score
- The student's own previous performance
- The performance of a standardized sample group (Correct answer)
- The curriculum objectives of the course
Correct answer: The performance of a standardized sample group
Norm-referenced tests interpret an individual's score relative to the performance of a normative or standardization sample.
Question 6: Which statistical concept describes the spread of scores around the mean in a normal distribution?
- Mode
- Median
- Standard deviation (Correct answer)
- Skewness
Correct answer: Standard deviation
Standard deviation quantifies the average amount that scores deviate from the mean, reflecting the spread of the distribution.
Question 7: A counselor notices that a personality inventory has questions that appear relevant to the trait being measured. This describes:
- Construct validity
- Face validity (Correct answer)
- Predictive validity
- Concurrent validity
Correct answer: Face validity
Face validity refers to whether a test appears, on its surface, to measure what it intends to measure, without empirical verification.
CPCE Assessment and Testing 2
A counselor administers the same test to a client twice within two weeks and obtains very different scores.
This most likely indicates a problem with which psychometric property?