Test Bank
How To Use SPSS Statistics, 10th Ed.
Chapter 9: Test Construction
1. Which of the following is NOT an aspect of Item-total analysis?
a. All items must be measured on an interval or ratio scale.
2. What are the assumptions for item-total analysis?
I. All items should be measured on an interval or ratio scale.
II. Each item should be normally distributed.
III. The analysis is conducted using Pearson r but can be conducted with
Spearman rho if the data are ordinal in nature.
a. I only
b. II only
3. Which of the following has a correlation matrix as its output?
e. None of the above
4. When conducting an item-total analysis, if an item-total correlation is negative, you
should:
a. Report the correlation as negative.
b. Average the correlation with the other correlations.
5. When conducting an item-total analysis, the items in the scale are considered internally
consistent when all of the item-total correlations are:
a. Greater than 1.0
b. Less than 1.0
6. Which of the following is FALSE about Cronbach’s alpha?
a. All items must be measured on an interval or ratio scale.
7. When assessing the value of your Cronbach’s alpha,
a. Numbers close to 1.00 indicate poor internal consistency.
f. You hope the number is close to 0.00.
8. Test-retest reliability is:
a. a measure of validity.
9. Which of the following is NOT true for the test-retest reliability coefficient?
a. It is a correlation coefficient for the relationship between total scores on two
administrations of the same measure.
b. It is calculated using the Pearson r correlation coefficient with the two administrations
10. Which of the following is NOT true for criterion-related validity?
e. Requires that all items be measured on an interval or ratio scale.
f. Requires that all items be normally distributed.