You are asked to evaluate the reliability of the standardized achievement test used at your school. How would you go about doing this?
What will be an ideal response?
Reliability can be measured in the following ways: test-retest reliability (administer the same test on two different occasions and look at consistency between occasions), alternate-forms reliability (administer two forms of the same test on two different occasions and look at consistency between forms), and split-half reliability (divide the test items into two halves and look at consistency between the two halves).
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Most career goals tend to be:
a) "mini-goals" — that take less than a day to complete. b) short-term — ones that can be accomplished in a month or less. c) intermediate — between a month and a year to reach. d) long-term — goals that take a year or more to achieve.
According to a survey reported in your text, which of the following statements are correct?
a. Nearly all public schools that have Internet access are using high-speed connections. b. About 80 percent of schools with Internet access have recently offered their teachers professional development related to the integration of Internet use into the curriculum. c. Compared to teachers with twenty or more years of experience, newer teachers are more likely to use the computers to teach. d. Over 90 percent of public schools use the Internet to provide data that informs instructional planning. e. All of these answers.
Which of the following is a reason that scientific inquiry skills are necessary for students to gain?
a. Research has shown that we are pushing too much knowledge on students at too young of an age and often are not yet capable of scientific reasoning b. Students must be able to perform their own science experiments when they are adults to test out their theories c. To prepare a diverse workforce capable of scientific research, investigation, and informed decision making d. Inquiry skills will help students lead healthy social lives because they will ask intriguing questions and be able to communicate effectively
Suppose that a teacher wanted to determine how objective she had been in scoring her students' essays. Which of the following procedures would be appropriate for her purpose?
a. Retest her students with a similar test and correlate the two set of scores. b. Request a colleague to score the essays and correlate her scores with her colleagues' scores. c. Separate by score the even and odd-numbered essays, creating two scores for each student. Then correlate the two sets of scores.