Types of Tests & Tests Construction – Psychology UGC NET – Solved PYQs

Included Topics Types of tests, Test construction: Item writing, item analysis

1. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by choosing from the codes given below: [DEC 2014]

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Directions (Q. Nos. 2-6) Read the following paragraph and answer the questions which follow:

A psychometrician wanted to develop a new test of Abstract Thinking. He prepared eighty items, presumably assessing abstract thinking. Each item had five alternative answers, one of them being correct. The psychometrician carried out item analysis by using item-remainder correlations.

Item analysis retained sixty items. To examine internal consistency among the items, inter-item correlations were inspected. Then the split-half reliability coefficient, Kuder- Richardson reliability coefficient and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient were obtained for the 60 item test.

The analysis yielded the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.90. Since, the test was fairly long and the alpha coefficient was also quite high, an attempt was made to develop two short versions of equal length by randomly dividing the test items. The 60 item version was, then, correlated with the already established abstract reasoning test, using N = 500. The correlation between the new and an established test was 0.24, significant at .01 level.

2. In the above context, which one of the following correlation should be computed to obtain item-remainder correlations? [DEC 2015]

(1) Point biserial correlation

(2) Phi-coefficient

(3) Rank difference correlation

(4) Tetrachoric correlation

3. Which one of the following statements would be true in the above context? [DEC 2015]

(1) Kuder-Richardson reliability coefficient would also be 90, but the split-half reliability coefficient may differ from 90

(2) Split-half reliability coefficient would also be 90, but the Kuder-Richardson reliability coefficient may differ from 90

(3) Both Kuder-Richardson reliability coefficient and split-half reliability coefficient would be 90

(4) The correlation between odd and even parts of the test would be 90

4. To obtain inter-item correlations, which one of the following correlation coefficients should be used in the above analysis? [DEC 2015]

(1) Biserial correlation

(2) Point biserial correlation

(3) Phi-coefficient

(4) Rank difference correlation

5. What is the expected Cronbach alpha for the short versions, referred to in the paragraph? [DEC 2015]

(1) 0.45

(2) 0.67

(3) 0.82

(4) 0.90

6. Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the data provided above? The new Abstract Thinking Test has [DEC 2015]

(1) satisfactory convergent validity

(2) satisfactory divergent validity

(3) satisfactory concurrent validity

(4) unsatisfactory concurrent validity

7. Which one of the following statement is true in the context of item analysis? [JULY 2016]

(1) Item-total correlation is equal to Item-remainder correlation

(2) Item-total correlation is greater than or equal to item-remainder correlation

(3) Item-total correlation is smaller than or equal to item-remainder correlation

(4) Item-total correlation cannot be negative

8. Arrange the clinical scales of MMPI-II in correct sequence. [NOV 2017]

(1) Depression → Hypochendriasis → Hysterin → Pyychopathic Deviate → Masculinity-Feminity → Paranoia → Psychsthenia → Schizophrenia → Hypomania → Social Introwertion

(2) Hypochondriasis → Depresston → Hysteria → Psychopathic Deviate → Masculinity-Feminity → Paranoia → Psychasthenia → Schigophrenia → Hypomania → Social Introversion

(3) Social Introversion → Hypomania → Hypochondriasis → Depression → Hysteria → Psychopathic Deviate → Masculinity-Feminity → Paranoia → Psychasthensa → Schizophrenia

(4) Social introversion → Schimophrenia → Psychasthenia → Paranoia → Masculinity Feminity → Psychopathic deviate → Hysteria → Depression → Hypochondriasis