A typology of validity: content, face, convergent, discriminant, nomological and predictive validity [PDF]
Purpose – Research serves to elucidate and tackle real-world issues (e.g. capitalizing opportunities and solving problems). Critical to research is the concept of validity, which gauges the extent to which research is adequate and appropriate in ...
Weng Marc Lim
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Discriminant Construct Validity of ImPACT™: A Companion Study
In a previous analysis of ImPACT scores relative to traditional neuropsychological tests (NP) and experimental tasks (Maerlender et al., 2010 ) we demonstrated convergent construct validity for the primary ImPACT test-score composites. A complete analysis of discriminant validity was not undertaken at that time. Here, test scores from the 54 collegiate
Maerlender, Arthur C. +6 more
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Psychometric Properties of the Brief Strengths Scale-12 in Korean Population
The goal of this study was to examine the factorial structure, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, criterion validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity of the Brief Strengths Scale-12 (BSS-12) in Korean population.
Young-Jin Lim
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Construct validity of multiple achievement goals: A multitrait-multimethod approach [PDF]
The aim of this study was to examine three different instruments which have been used in research conducted in the physical domain to measure mastery, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals.
Duda, Joan L, Nien, Chiao-Lin
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Measuring competency-relevant knowledge in the competency-oriented student progress test
Background: Since 2013 a competency-oriented student progress test (SKPT) has been administered at a number of German medical schools. The questions are generated on the basis of a two-dimensional blueprint, on which one axis contains the five competency
Möltner, Andreas +2 more
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The construct validity of the Dutch personality inventory for DSM-5 personality disorders (PID-5) in a clinical sample [PDF]
The factor structure and the convergent validity of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5), a self-report questionnaire designed to measure personality pathology as advocated in the fifth edition, Section III of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
Bastiaens, Tim +10 more
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Anchoring vignettes can they make adolescent self-reports of social-emotional skills more reliable, discriminant, and criterion-valid? [PDF]
Individuals differ in the way they use rating scales to describe themselves, and these differences are particularly pronounced in children and early adolescents. One promising remedy is to correct (or "anchor'') an individual's responses according to the
De Fruyt, Filip +4 more
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Assessing the association between conceptual constructs are at the heart of quantitative research in educational and psychological research. Researchers apply different methods to the data to obtain results about the correlation between a set of ...
Kaiqi Shao +3 more
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The Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale: Translation and Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity [PDF]
The present study reports on the psychometric evaluation and cross-cultural validity of the Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale (BPNES; Vlachopoulos & Michailidou, 2006) translated from Greek into English.
Ntoumanis, Nikos +2 more
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The Use of Course Grades in the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes for General Education
The reliability and validity of course grades as measures of general education learning outcomes were assessed using the multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) proposed by Campbell and Fiske.
Merle L. Canfield +4 more
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