Educational assessment and evaluation UE Past Papers Questions.

Which of the following provides the best description of a norm -referenced grading approach?

1. All students can receive C grades
2. A student`s grade depends on how other students performed
3. Any student who exceeded  the standard got an A
4. Grades were based on a departmental examination.

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Suppose you created a new measure of reading comprehensiion  and you wanted to test its validity. Therefore you compare the results of your new measure to existing validated measures of reading comprehension and find that your measure compares well with these other measures. We could then say that your new measure has good___

1. Predictive validity
2. Content validity
3. Criterion-related validity
4. Concurrent validity

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A test is said to accurately assess specific psychological and personality traits, psychological concepts, attributes, and theoretical characteristics. This assessment is likely to have good;

1. Predictive validity
2. Content validity
3. Criterion-related validity
4. Construct validity

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Consider the following  statements about a hypothetical personality test. Which one is not possible based on the relationship between reliability and validity?

1. The test is high in predictive validity and high in reliability
2. The test is high in predictive validity and low in reliability
3. The test is low in predictive validity and high in reliability
4. The test is low in predictive validity and low in reliability

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It has been said that a so-called  true score is “not the ultimate fact in the book of the recording angel”. This means that.

1. Subjectivity in scoring may lead to chance variations in examination scores
2. Factors due to luck, for lack of another word, must always be considered
3. Test variance due to true variance as opposed to error may never be known
4. Religion as a cultural variable has not been given sufficient consideration

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