In Chapter 5 of your textbook,you read of the writing surface on a school desk that was "riddled with heart carvings,the legacy of past years' students who felt compelled to express their eternal devotion to someone now long forgotten." This imagery was designed to graphically illustrate sources of error variance during test
A) development.
B) administration.
C) scoring.
D) interpretation.

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The imagery of the heart carvings on the school desk represents a form of extraneous variable, or error variance, that can affect the results of a test during administration. This exemplifies how sources of error can be present and influence the outcome of the test, even if they are unrelated to the construct being measured. Therefore, the correct choice is B) administration.

In Chapter 5 of Your Textbook,you Read of the Writing