Test Construction and Item Analysis - Psychometrics - Psychology Previous Year Questions

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2022 · Psychology · Psychometrics · Test Construction and Item Analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2022

Test developers use reverse coding of certain items in a scale to offset the effects of __________ .

A

Social desirability

B

Acquiescence

C

Faking

D

Random responding

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2022 · Psychology · Psychometrics · Test Construction and Item Analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2022

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding exploratory factor analysis (EFA) technique?

A

It helps to reduce large number of variables into few numbers of factors.

B

It helps researchers to investigate concepts that cannot easily be measured directly.

C

It extracts maximum common variance from all variables and put them into a common score.

D

A technique used to verify the factor structure of a set of observed variables.

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2024 · Psychology · Psychometrics · Test Construction and Item Analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2024

Which of the following statements is/are correct about “item-response theory”?

A

It talks about how items should function based on the knowledge of an ability or trait.

B

It compares responses to items to determine how well the items function.

C

It is based on the assumption that many latent traits underlie test performance.

D

It is a logistic function having, one, two or three parameters.

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2025 · Psychology · Psychometrics · Test Construction and Item Analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2025

Which statistical technique is used to analyze patterns of loading of coefficients?

A

Correlation

B

Regression

C

Factor Analysis

D

Item Analysis

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2025 · Psychology · Psychometrics · Test Construction and Item Analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2025

Assertions- P. Factor analysis reduces a large number of measures to a smaller number of clusters. Q. The measures within each cluster are highly interconnected and reflect the same underlying dimensions. Which of the following is correct?

A

Only P is correct

B

Only Q is correct

C

Both P and Q are correct

D

Neither P nor Q is correct

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2026 · Psychology · Psychometrics · Test Construction and Item Analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences - Psychology (XH-C5) 2026

In Wechsler intelligence scales, people may express IQ in standard deviation units where, X= individual’s score, M= mean, and SD= standard deviation. Given this, standard score (SC) can be computed using the formula____.

A

\(SC = \left( \frac{X - M}{SD} \right)\)

B

\(SC = \left( \frac{M - X}{SD} \right)\)

C

\(SC = \left( \frac{X \times M}{SD} \right)\)

D

SC = (X - M) \times SD

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