MCQ Bank
Which of the following test refers to see a specific content area has been learnt and/ or mastery is acquired?
- A) Performance
- B) Personality
- C) Projective
- D) Achievement
There are situations when the criterion itself has been, partially or fully, based on predictor measures. This is called _______________.
- A) Decontamination
- B) Criterion biasness
- C) Criterion contamination
- D) Predictive functioning
In writing multiple choice questions, test developer is used to include incorrect options in answers; known as what?
- A) Distracters
- B) Options
- C) Symbols
- D) Phrases
In heterogeneous groups, the value of correlation will be _________________ as compared to homogeneous groups.
- A) Moderate
- B) Lower
- C) Best
- D) Higher
In a test, 65% of high achievers and 10% of low achievers selected a distractor which was the correct answer. That distractor can be considered:
- A) Weak
- B) Very good
- C) Poor
- D) Very bad
______________ tests are one of those tests whose reliability deserves extra concern and care.
- A) Speed
- B) Written
- C) Projective
- D) Power
____________ refers to the proportion of people who are expected to succeed on a criterion if they are chosen at random.
- A) Selected Rates
- B) Hit Rates
- C) Fix Rates
- D) Base Rates
The common item difficulty index range of test items is between ___________.
- A) .4 and .9
- B) .3 and .8
- C) .1 and .6
- D) .2 and .7
If a test taker is using written tests particularly the objective ones, _____________ reliability is not a matter of concern.
- A) Alternate-Form
- B) Inter-rater
- C) Test-Retest
- D) Inter scorer
______________ validity shows us the extent to which a test measures the same construct/trait as do other measures that have been designed and developed to measure the same construct/trait/ attribute.
- A) Face
- B) Discriminant
- C) Content
- D) Convergent
Concurrent validity is a type of:
- A) Content validity
- B) Criterion-related Validity
- C) Construct validity
- D) Face validity
The sum of true score and error is known as:
- A) Observed score
- B) Sum score
- C) Measured score
- D) True score
The ___________ tables present the probability that a person selected based on the test score will actually be successful.
- A) Taylor and Anastasia
- B) Taylor and Catell
- C) Taylor and Urbina
- D) Taylor and Russell
An informed scientific idea developed to describe or explain any behavior is called:
- A) Concept
- B) Attitude
- C) Content
- D) Construct
100 students appeared in a test, 65% of high achievers selected a distractor which was actually a wrong answer. But only 10% of low achievers selected that distractor, that distractor should be _________ by the test developer.
- A) Retained
- B) Excluded
- C) Maintained
- D) Improved
In an MCQ question, the response options include one right answer and the others are called:
- A) Distractors
- B) Stem
- C) Layout
- D) Format
A test that contains items with different difficulty level but the test takers are given enough time for completing it is called:
- A) Aptitude test
- B) Intelligence test
- C) Speed test
- D) Power test
When items are discriminating between the two groups then they should be ________in the test.
- A) Deleted
- B) Discarded
- C) Retained
- D) Improved
When a diagnostic test of OCD correlated highly with Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, it provides an indication of:
- A) Convergent validity
- B) Content validity
- C) Divergent validity
- D) Criterion related validity
Writing an essay is a type of which of the following format?
- A) Response format
- B) Likert format
- C) Checklists
- D) Category format