A school administrator seeks the cost and duration required to administer an exam. This consideration is most closely associated with the exam's practicality.

• A. Standardization
• B. Practicality
• C. Reliability
• D. Validity

Answer: (B)

This is about practicality—the feasibility of administering the exam in real-world conditions. It focuses on whether the test can be run within available time, budget, personnel, and logistics. When a school administrator asks about cost and how long the exam will take, they’re evaluating if the assessment is practical to implement across the district.

Standardization is about running the test uniformly so every examinee has the same conditions and scoring criteria, which affects fairness but not the logistical feasibility. Reliability concerns whether the test would yield consistent results across administrations, times, or raters, and validity concerns whether the test actually measures what it intends to measure. Those are about quality of measurement, not about whether it can be practically administered.