Practitioner’s Guide To Using Research For Evidence Based Practice 2nd Edition By Rubin – Test bank

Test Bank Questions for Chapter 11

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. For an instrument to be reliable:
a. it must be valid.
b. an individual’s responses to it must be consistent.
c. it must be sensitive.
d. All of the above.

2. Internal consistency reliability requires:
a. internal validity.
b. stability in responses over time.
c. positive correlations among the items of an instrument.
d. All of the above.

3. Coefficient alpha refers to:
a. the statistical significance of an instrument.
b. the stability of an instrument.
c. interrater reliability.
d. the mean of all those split-half correlations of scale items.

4. Test–retest reliability:
a. is more expedient and less costly to assess than internal consistency reliability.
b. involves testing people with the same instrument at least 6 months between test and retest.
c. is affected by the possibility that some people might really change between test and retest.
d. All of the above.

5. Validity:
a. requires reliability.
b. refers to whether an instrument really measures what it is intended to measure.
c. Both a and b.
d. None of the above.

6. Face validity:
a. is the strongest form of validity.
b. is the weakest form of validity.
c. is a form of criterion validity.
d. None of the above.

7. Criterion validity:
a. can be in the form of predictive validity.
b. can be in the form of concurrent validity.
c. can be in the form of known-groups validity.
d. All of the above.

8. Construct validity:
a. involves assessing convergent validity.
b. involves ruling out alternative constructs via assessing discriminant validity
c. might involve assessing factorial validity
d. All of the above.

9. If an instrument has linguistic equivalence across two different cultures, it will:
a. have conceptual equivalence.
b. have metric equivalence.
c. be reliable and valid in both cultures.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above

Answer Key—Chapter 11

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. b
2. c
3. d
4. c
5. c
6. b
7. d
8. e