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Narratives of Construct Validation
Evaluation & the Health Professions, 1994This article presents a critique of the social and political context in which the idea of construct validation developed. Itoutlines the rhetorical as well as the empirical andphilosophical dimensions of the concept Finaly, the essay offers an alternative viewpoint for the conceptulizaton of construct validation and links it to current treatments of ...
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The Social Construction of Validity
Qualitative Inquiry, 1995Validation of qualitative research is here discussed in relation to postmodern conceptions of knowledge. A modernist notion of true knowledge as a mirror of reality is replaced by a postmodern understanding of knowledge as a social construction. Of the common psychometric concepts of validity, predictive validity is related to a modernist correspon ...
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All Validity Is Construct Validity. Or Is It?
Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research & Perspective, 2012Paul E. Newton's article on the consensus definition of validity tackles a number of big issues and makes a number of strong claims.
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Construct Validation of Metacognition
The Journal of Psychology, 1993Abstract Recent investigations have established the importance of metacognition in the acquisition and application of learning skills in diverse domains of inquiry. Despite the voluminous theoretical and empirical research, there remain some unanswered questions regarding the specific components underlying the construct and whether these components are
Eleanor Armour-Thomas, Brenda A. Allen
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Constructs and Construct Validation: Definitions and Issues
Human Performance, 1992This article presents a definition of constructs, construct validity, and wn- struct validation and traces some of the historical treatments of the terms. It is argued that construct validity and validation procedures can be particularly useful in personnel-testing contexts, where jobrelatedness is required.
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2019
This chapter mainly discusses the concepts of construct, validity and validation. First, different views of construct are presented. Then the chapter focuses on the concept of validity and various theoretical underpinnings of test validation, including Messick’s validation framework, Kane’s interpretive argument framework, Bachman and Palmer’s ...
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This chapter mainly discusses the concepts of construct, validity and validation. First, different views of construct are presented. Then the chapter focuses on the concept of validity and various theoretical underpinnings of test validation, including Messick’s validation framework, Kane’s interpretive argument framework, Bachman and Palmer’s ...
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From Construct Validity to Theory Validation
Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research & Perspective, 2012Lee Cronbach once expressed the view that all roads lead to construct validity. In looking to clarify the consensus definition of validity, and its place in assessment, Newton (this issue) is also ...
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Construct validity of in-basket scores.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 1989Etude de la validite d'«in-baskets» utilises pour mesurer les capacites des managers. Donnees collectees par un pretest-posttest experimental avec 2 formes d'«in-baskets» alternees. Probleme de l'inference des differences individuelles dans les capacites de direction a partir des scores d'«in-basket»
Brannick, Michael T. +2 more
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The construct validity of burnout
Journal of Occupational Psychology, 1984Considerable confusion exists in the burnout literature about the similarities and separateness among the constructs of burnout, depression and job satisfaction. This study examined the construct validity of burnout using Campbell & Fiske's multitrait‐multimethod approach.
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Constructive validity is nonarithmetic
The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1988It follows constructively from weak versions of Markov's principle (MP) and of Church's thesis (WCT) that logical validity for single sentences is not arithmetically definable. This is a direct consequence of the constructive model-theoretic fact that, using MP and WCT, one can prove the categoricity of first-order Heyting arithmetic.
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