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Is Construct Validation Valid? [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2016 What makes a measure of well-being valid? The dominant approach today, construct validation, uses psychometrics to ensure that questionnaires behave in accordance with background knowledge. Our first claim is interpretive—construct validation obeys a coherentist logic that seeks to balance diverse sources of evidence about the construct in question ...
Alexandrova, A, Haybron, DM
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Synthese, 2017 AbstractBeall and Murzi (J Philos 110(3):143–165, 2013) introduce an object-linguistic predicate for naïve validity, governed by intuitive principles that are inconsistent with the classical structural rules (over sufficiently expressive base theories). As a consequence, they suggest that revisionary approaches to semantic paradox must be substructural.
Murzi J, Rossi L
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Relational visual cluster validity [PDF]
, 2007 The assessment of cluster validity plays a very important role in cluster analysis. Most commonly used cluster validity methods are based on statistical hypothesis testing or finding the best clustering scheme by computing a number of different cluster ...
Ding, Y., Harrison, R.F.
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A Systematic Review Evaluating Psychometric Properties of Parent or Caregiver Report Instruments on Child Maltreatment: Part 1: Content Validity [PDF]
, 2020 Aims: Child maltreatment (CM) is a serious public health issue, affecting over half of all children globally. Although most CM is perpetrated by parents or caregivers and their reports of CM is more accurate than professionals or children, parent or ...
Aunio, Pirjo +4 more
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Validity, dialetheism and self-reference [PDF]
, 2018 It has been argued recently (Beall in Spandrels of truth, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009; Beall and Murzi J Philos 110:143–165, 2013) that dialetheist theories are unable to express the concept of naive validity.
Pailos, Federico Matias
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Beyond the Pragmatic Definition? The Right to Non-discrimination of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Coercive Interventions [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2020 According to a longstanding definition of non-discrimination, differential treatment does not constitute discrimination if the purpose or effect of the differential treatment is to achieve a legitimate aim and if the differential treatment can be ...
Sándor Gurbai
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Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2023 Background: This study introduced the Perinatal Grief Intensity Scale (PGIS) and applied it to assess the reliability and validity of perinatal loss in Chinese mothers.
Jianping Xu, Shuiqin Gu, Shuihong Su
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A typology of validity: content, face, convergent, discriminant, nomological and predictive validity [PDF]
Journal of Trade SciencePurpose – 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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Once Validated, Always Validated? [PDF]
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2007 YOU need a brief measure, say, of stress, or social resources, or functional status. You find one that not only seems to address the conceptual issues about which you are concerned, but for which information on validity and reliability have also been published. Moreover, it has been used frequently, and its name is well recognized.
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A factor analysis of an instrument for measuring physical abuse experience of students at school
REID (Research and Evaluation in Education), 2018 Violence in schools is increasingly reported by the mass media. It indicates that its prevalence is escalating. An instrument which has a proper psychometric property is needed to investigate the phenomenon.
Safrudin Amin +2 more
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