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A severity error may involve rating the severity of a problem below the
real potential impact, leading to an insufficiently fast or thorough
response, or rating the severity higher than is justified, leading to the
waste of resources expended through overkill, and a loss of perceived
reliability on the part of the system or rating the individual.
45. When thirty out of forty test takers answered
item no.7 correctly said statement is describing:
a. Item difficulty b. Validity of the item c. Item discrimination
d. Reliability of the item
The first test, the Alpha, was a written test made up of true/false and multiple-
choice questions that assessed things like the ability to follow directions,
arithmetic, and analogies. The Army Alpha test was distributed to determine
whether draftees could read English, but also to evaluate soldiers so that they
could be assigned to tasks or training in alignment with their abilities. Psychologists
aimed to make the tests fairly comparable. Soldiers were given a letter grade and
those who received the lowest grade were deemed unfit for service. The men who
received a letter grade higher were given simple duties. The men who received
scores in the middle of the distribution performed regular soldier duties. Those
with higher scores were trained as officers.
47. 47. The test developer please refer to item 50
is influenced by the theory of:
a. Rotter b. Beck c. Rogers d. Bandura
• The Standard Normal curve, shown here, has mean 0 and standard
deviation 1. If a dataset follows a normal distribution, then about 68%
of the observations will fall.
51. . An online “IQ” test that provides result based on the performance
on a single task, such as block design, is said to be a poor intelligence
test even if it correlates well to school success because it is said to have
low:
a. Content validity b. Reliable validity c. Criterion related validity
d. Concurrent validity
• Concurrent validity is a concept commonly used in psychology,
education, and social science. It refers to the extent to which the
results of a particular test, or measurement, correspond to those of a
previously established measurement for the same construct.
52. A senior instructor at the Air Force Academy insist that his “personnel test”
for officer candidate school need on, consist of one question: Did you ever fly a
model airplane that you built yourself? If this one item test was actually used to
select their candidates, we could assume that the test: