1. The College Board administers looks at SAT scores (a standardized exam) for individuals who took the exam in June and then took the exam again in December.

1. 1. Considering the information above, what kind of reliability will the researchers be looking for?
   2. Why do you think this?
   3. Would you expect the reliability to be high or low? Why?

2. You and your group are focusing your project on depression and participation in extracurricular activities among college students. Your group member wants to ask the question "Are you depressed?" in the survey.

1. 1. What kind of validity is this survey question relying on?
   2. Do you agree with your group member that this question should go in your survey? Why or why not?
      1. If you agree, describe why the type of validity is helpful in measuring the construct
      2. If you disagree, describe what you should do instead.

3. Your group decides to include the 10-item Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) which measures the level of alcohol consumption and risk for alcohol misuse. Your group runs the Cronbach's alpha for the AUDIT score and finds that the value is .54.

1. What does this mean? How do you interpret this?
2. How would you interpret a Cronbach's alpha of .94?