CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -If course exams assess a student’s mastery of a representative sample of course material, they are said to: Response: have content validity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Achievement tests are designed to measure the knowledge and skills students learned in school or to determine the academic progress they have made over a period of time.

Detailed explanation-3: -Reliability is the degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results. Test-retest reliability is a measure of reliability obtained by administering the same test twice over a period of time to a group of individuals.

Detailed explanation-4: -*Factor Analysis-a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one’s total score.

Detailed explanation-5: -Why does the predictive validity of general aptitude tests decrease as the educational experience of the students who take them increases? a. More educated students have taken aptitude tests so frequently that for them such tests are no longer pure measures of aptitude.