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- 1. Week 3 Individual Assignment DUE DATE This assignment is due on Monday, Day 7 of Week 3. OVERVIEW This is an assignment to give you experience applying the knowledge of reliability and validity that you obtained in Week 2 in real-life scenarios. RESOURCES There is no limitation on the resources you may use in answering the questions below. It is not necessary to include citations in the text or a References list at the end. Dr. Tom’s Cookbook should be useful for this assignment. SPECIFICATIONS DOCUMENT TYPE REQUIRED: Insert your answers after the questions below. LENGTH: No minimum length. Each response should not exceed 7 lines of 12-point Times New Roman text. FORMAT REQUIREMENTS: * APA format is not required * Use 12-point Times New Roman font * In-text citations and a References page are not required
- 2. SCORING The 18 answers below are weighted equally. The score for each answer will be based 70% upon content and 30% upon writing mechanics and clarity of expression. Insert your answers into the spaces below each question using 12-point Times New Roman font. I will grade only the first 7 lines of each response. Scenario 1: A high school is planning a final exam to be used at the end of all its Algebra II classes. The purpose of the test is to evaluate how well the students have learned the topics on the syllabus for Algebra II. They will administer the exam for the first time on the last day of Fall semester, in December,. At that time about 90 students will take this exam. The principal has requested that the exam scores, plus reliability and validity results, be available for the School Board meeting in the first week of January. Reliability: 1a. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using alternate-forms reliability as the only measure of reliability for this new final exam. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 1b. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using split- half reliability as the only measure of reliability for this new final exam. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 1c. Which of those two reliability methods would you recommend to the principal? Why? (7 lines or less) Validity: 1d. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using content validity as the only measure of validity for this new final exam. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less)
- 3. 1e. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using predictive validity as the only measure of validity for this new final exam. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 1f. Which of those two validity methods would you recommend to the principal? Why? (7 lines or less) Scenario 2: A large testing company is creating a standardized test of Computer Programming Using JavaScript. (“JavaScript” is a programming language.) The purpose of the test is to measure an individual’s skill with the JavaScript language. The test will be sold to employers as a tool for predicting software engineers’ job performance. A software company is helping with the development of the test; they have offered to allow the testing company try out the test on their current staff of software engineers, and will allow the testing company to access data on those software engineers’ recent performance ratings. The testing company wants to begin the pilot test on May 1 and have the tryout completed by September 1. Reliability: 2a. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using test- retest reliability as the only measure of reliability for this new employment test. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 2b. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using internal consistency reliability as the only measure of reliability for this new employment test. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 2c. Which of those two reliability methods would you recommend to the testing company? Why? (7 lines or less) Validity: 2d. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using face validity as the only measure of validity for this new employment test. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 2e. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using
- 4. concurrent validity as the only measure of validity for this new employment test. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 2f. Which of those two validity methods would you recommend to the testing company? Why? (7 lines or less) Scenario 3: Two Forensic Psychology professors are developing a personality test to be given to individuals incarcerated for non-violent crimes. The purpose of the test is to predict whether the test taker will be re-arrested for committing new crimes after they have been released from prison. A local prison has agreed to let them administer the test to current prisoners who are serving sentences for non-violent crimes, but the professors must do all testing in a single visit to the prison. The professors would like to be able to publish the results within 18 months. Reliability: 3a. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using test- retest reliability as the only measure of reliability for this new test. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 3b. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using internal consistency reliability as the only measure of reliability for this new test. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 3c. Which of those two reliability methods would you recommend to the professors? Why? (7 lines or less) Validity: 3d. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of correlating the test scores with scores on a different test that has been shown to successfully predict recidivism (this would be a form of construct validity) as the only measure of validity for this new test. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less)
- 5. 3e. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of using predictive validity as the only measure of validity for this new test. Give an answer that applies to this situation, not a “textbook” answer. (7 lines or less) 3f. Which of those two validity methods would you recommend to the professors? Why? (7 lines or less) 1 1 Week 2 Individual Assignment DUE DATE This assignment is due on Monday, Day 7 of Week 2. ASSIGNMENT Select one of the following significant occurrences in the development of psychological testing: * Initial creation of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (now called the SAT) * The increase over the last 15 years in the number of states requiring high school seniors
- 6. to pass a statewide graduation exam * Attempts to relate human body shape to personality characteristics, especially phrenology and the theory of somatotypes. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper exploring your selected event and its historical roots. In your paper, explain why the event is significant and how it has affected the development of psychological testing in the 21st century. SPECIFICATIONS DOCUMENT TYPE REQUIRED: MS Word, .RTF, or .PDF document LENGTH: 700 to 1,050 words APA FORMAT REQUIREMENTS: * Page headers * Title page
- 7. * References with citations in the text (minimum number of references: one) * 12-point Times New Roman * Double-spaced 2 GRADING RUBRIC Task Criteria Weight Content and Organization (70%) " Select one of the following significant occurrences in the development of psychological testing." Topic is one of those listed in the assignment.
- 8. 5% "Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper exploring your selected event and its historical roots. In your paper, explain why the event is significant and how it has affected the development of psychological testing in the 21st century." Explored its historical roots. 5% Explained why the event is significant. 5% Explained how the event has affected the development of psychological testing in the 21st century.
- 9. 5% The paper is 700 to 1,050 words. 4% The content is the student's own work 10% The content is comprehensive and accurate 10% The paper develops a central theme or idea, directed toward the appropriate audience. 8% Major points are stated clearly; are supported by specific details, examples, or analysis; and are organized logically. 10% The introduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points. 4%
- 10. The conclusion is logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points. 4% Clarity and Flow of Ideas (10%) Write with a style that is appropriate and readable Ideas are expressed clearly and coherently. 5% Sentences and paragraphs create a smooth flow of ideas. 5% Mechanics (10%) Use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage
- 11. Rules of grammar are followed. 4% Spelling is correct. 2% Word usage is correct. 4% 3 APA Style (10%) APA FORMAT REQUIREMENTS: * Page headers * Title page * References with citations in the text * 12-point Times New Roman font * Double-spaced Title page and page headers 2% Font and line spacing 3% Reference and citation format (from mini-
- 12. rubric below) 5% APA REFERENCES CRITERIA Mini-Rubric Used 12-point Times New Roman font throughout Listed references alphabetically by author(s) last name Uses first initials for authors, not first names Included all required components (authors, article title, journal title, etc.) Placed components in correct order Used plain text for article titles (not italics, or bold, or all-caps, etc.) Used proper capitalization for article, journal, and book titles Used italics for journal or book titles Formatted volume number and page numbers correctly
- 13. Used double spacing throughout the References list Used hanging indents Used other APA format features correctly Avoided using articles that appear to be secondary references (e.g. references more than 60 years old). Articles cited in text match articles in Reference section Used correct format for citations WATCH OUT FOR . . . The most frequent issues that cause students to lose points on this assignment are: • Failing to describe how the event influences psychological testing in the 21st century • Using too many direct quotes • Including references for books or articles that they are unlikely to have read (for
- 14. example, books written more than 50 years ago) 4 • Failing to include good introductory and/or closing paragraphs • Using improper APA formatting of citations and references • Improper referencing of secondary sources (see below) NOTES This is one of the few assignments that does not require your references to be from peer- reviewed professional journals. You're free to use Wikipedia and other websites. As noted above, avoid listing references that you haven't personally read. Frequently for this assignment students will cite an ancient book that they are highly unlikely to have read. If you're reading an article about a psychologist that contains a good quote from one of his articles or books, and you use the quote in your paper, your citation for the quote should be to the article you actually read, not to the older article or book.
- 15. In this case, the article you read is called a secondary source. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here's an example I’ve adapted from the Purdue OWL website (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/09/): Work Discussed in a Secondary Source Suppose you were reading an article by Smith, and Smith mentions information from something published by Jones in 1943. You want to use the Jones information in your paper, but you haven’t actually read Jones’ article, you’ve only read what Smith said about it. Here’s what you do: * In your references list, list the article you’ve actually read: Smith’s. * In the text of your paper, mention both Smith and Jones. For example, in the references list, list the source the work was discussed in: Smith, J. (1993). Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and parallel-distributed-processing approaches. Psychological Review, 100, 589-608.
- 16. In the text of your paper, use the following citation: In Jones’ study in 1943 (as cited in Smith, 1993), ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~