psy395 validity test 2
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- To what extent are the constructs successfully operationalized?
- construct validity
- To what extent does the research design allow causal conclusions to be reached?
- internal validity
- How generalizable are the results of a study?
- external validity
- Does the test reflect the domain you're trying to measure?
- content validity
- Do the items included in a measuring instrument or test adequately represent the content of the property that the investigator wishes to measure?
- content validity
- A demonstration that the items of a test are drawn from the domain being measured
- content validity
- Does the test actually predict behavior that it is supposed to predict?
- criterion-related validity
- A type of validity in which statistical evidence is used to establish validity
- criterion-related validity
- Correlating a test with the actual behavior
- criterion-related validity
- predictive validity and concurrent validity
- types of criterion-related validity
- 2 types of criterion-related validity
- predictive, concurrent validity
- When a measure correctly predicts a future outcome, it has...
- ...predictive validity
- Employment tests are a type of...
- ...predictive validity
- A type of validity that is established by collecting and comparing two different measures at the same time
- concurrent validity
- If things that measure the same construct are highly related, they have...
- ...convergent validity
- Same construct assessed using different measures
- convergent validity
- Things that measure different constructs should not be related
- discriminant validity
- Different constructs assessed using different measures and the same measure
- discriminant validity
- An investigator examines whether a measure is related to other variables as required by theory
- construct validity
- Degree to which inferences can legitimately be made from operationalizations in a study to the theoretical constructs on which your study was based
- construct validity
- Inadequate number of items, poor item writing, lack of pilot testing, lack of item analysis procedures are threats to...
- ...construct validity
- Does the test predict what it's supposed to predict?
- criterion-related validity
- Prove by comparing scores with the criterion
- criterion-related validity
- Correlation of the test being validated with some well-respected outside measure of the same objectives/specification
- criterion-related validity