Counseling Assessment and Testing

Question 1

Which psychometric property indicates that a test consistently measures what it measures across repeated administrations?

Accepted Answer

Reliability

Answer

Reliability refers to the consistency and stability of test scores across time, raters, or forms, and is a prerequisite for test validity.

Question 2

Content validity refers to:

Accepted Answer

Whether the test items adequately represent the domain being measured

Answer

Content validity assesses whether test items adequately and representatively sample the full domain of content being measured.

Question 3

A norm-referenced test compares an individual's score to:

Accepted Answer

The scores of a standardization sample

Answer

Norm-referenced tests interpret scores relative to a normative or standardization sample, indicating how an individual compares to others in the reference group.

Question 4

The standard error of measurement (SEM) represents:

Accepted Answer

The expected amount of error in any individual's observed score

Answer

SEM estimates how much an observed score differs from a person's true score due to measurement error, and is used to construct confidence intervals around scores.

Question 5

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is best described as a(n):

Accepted Answer

Self-report symptom severity measure

Answer

The BDI is a 21-item self-report questionnaire measuring the severity of depressive symptoms, widely used in clinical research and practice.

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Counseling Assessment and Testing