1. Validity and reliability are important to learning and assessment because it is necessary to have information that is dependable when it is used to make educational decisions such as placement and other decisions pertaining to the individual student.
2. content
3. criterion related
4. concurrent criterion-related
5. Internal
6. External
7. internal consistency
7.1. Split-halves
7.2. odd-even reliability
8. Kuder-Richardson Methods
9. alternate form
9.1. Uses two equivalent forms of a test to the same group and correlate scores
10. interpreting reliability coefficients
10.1. group variability affects test reliability
10.2. scoring reliability limits test score reliability
