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Imagine that you have been contracted to create a test to assist in the admission process at a university. What factors would you consider and what steps would you take to ensure reliability and validity of this test? Explain why these factors and steps are important. Include references.

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In the creation of a test to assist in the admission process at a University, I would consider pertinent factors that would help to ensure the reliability and validity of this test. I would first ensure that the test that I am administering is temporally stable, in that the test will be administered in the same form to all students who take this test, in order to ensure that this test is reliably fair to each and every student, which will result in an increase in the ...

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