When the two scores from alternate forms of a test are correlated and found to be similar, the test is said to have ________.
A) temporal stability
B) internal consistency
C) form stability
D) version consistency

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Form stability refers to the extent to which different forms of a test produce similar scores. Therefore, when the two scores from alternate forms of a test are correlated and found to be similar, the test is said to have form stability. The other options refer to different types of reliability: temporal stability refers to consistency of scores over time, internal consistency refers to the consistency of scores across items within a test, and version consistency is not a recognized term in psychometrics.

When the Two Scores from Alternate Forms of a Test