1. A guidance counselor uses a vocational/occupational test to help students determine the type of occupation for which they could be best suited. What would be the best type of validity to apply to this situation?
Criterion Validity - Predictive

2. Mr. Valadie decides to implement a geometry achievement test to assess whether Mrs. Fisher is teaching all major geometrical topics. When Mrs. Fisher looks at the test, she informs Mr. Valadie that there are several important topics missing. What type of validity is Mrs. Fisher assessing?
Content Validity

3. Mrs. McNamara decides to develop a new intelligence test
Mrs. McNamara decides to develop a new intelligence test. Based on her observations, she determines that Mario Cart performance is highly related to intelligence. Therefore, she asks subjects to play Mario Cart for 30 minutes 5 days in a row. She finds that the scores are highly correlated across all five days. What is Mrs. McNamara assessing?
Test-retest reliability

4. Mrs. McNamara decides to develop a new intelligence test
Mrs. McNamara decides to develop a new intelligence test. Based on her observations, she determines that Mario Cart performance is highly related to intelligence. Therefore, she asks subjects to play Mario Cart for 30 minutes, then assigns an intelligent quotient based on their performance. Mrs. McNamara’s test lacks what type of validity?
Face validity

5. A researcher develops a new measure of verbal acuity
A researcher develops a new measure of verbal acuity. She finds that scores from this verbal acuity instrument correlate highly with a number of variables thought to be related to verbal acuity, such as intelligence, creativity, and self-confidence. What type of validity can she claim?
Content validity

6. Mr. Irvin develops a test of ignorance
Mr. Irvin develops a test of ignorance. He wants to establish validity, so he looks through the literature and finds that a researcher at Insane State has developed a measure of ignorance that has been proven to be valid. Mr. Irvin gives his test along with Insane State’s measure to students at one sitting and finds that they are highly correlated. What is he assessing?
Criterion validity - concurrent

7. Mr. Irvin takes his ignorance test responses and divides the responses into two clusters (items 1-25 and items 26-50). He then correlates the clusters to see if the scores are related to each other. What is Mr. Irvin assessing?
Split-half reliability