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on: Jun 20, 2018
One of the factors that positively affects the correlation coefficient between two tests is the similarity of the constructs being measured by the assessments.
 
  a. True
  b. False

Question 2

A teacher administered a 100-item multiple-choice language aptitude test to two groups of students. All the students in one group have nearly the same language aptitude. The students in the other group differ greatly in their language aptitude. If the aptitude test scores are correlated with the students' French course grades, for which group would a higher correlation be obtained?
 
  a. the group in which the students differ greatly in their language aptitude
  b. the group in which the students have nearly the same language aptitude
  c. It is impossible to infer the outcome without knowing the actual scores of the students.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

a


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