1. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with behavioral observation techniques and provide an example.

2. When your colleague tries to develop the scale to measure stress, what recommendations should you give the colleague in terms of validity? what are some examples?

3. How reliability is related to validity, and/or vice versa?

4. Criterion-referenced tests offer some advantages over tests that may be graded more subjectively and they are now quite prolific in school systems across the country. However, they have some specific problems. Discuss these advantages and disadvantages. ). How do you improve this situation?

5. The state of the subject may well affect his or her test performance and may be a serious source of error. Discuss some possible subject variables that may interfere with or improve an individual's performance on a test.