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2019
The choice of outcome measure for simulation studies is a crucial element of the research design, for without careful forethought and planning how can we be confident that we are measuring what we intend to measure? In this chapter, we follow on from the concepts introduced in Chap.
Rose Hatala, David A. Cook
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The choice of outcome measure for simulation studies is a crucial element of the research design, for without careful forethought and planning how can we be confident that we are measuring what we intend to measure? In this chapter, we follow on from the concepts introduced in Chap.
Rose Hatala, David A. Cook
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2016
Chapter 28 describes the evolution of the two most important concepts in psychometrics and for psychological and educational testing: reliability and validity. Between the publication of the first psychological tests and the most recent developments, the scientific, professional, and ethical requirements demanded by testing have largely evolved.
Paul De Boeck, Paula Elosua
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Chapter 28 describes the evolution of the two most important concepts in psychometrics and for psychological and educational testing: reliability and validity. Between the publication of the first psychological tests and the most recent developments, the scientific, professional, and ethical requirements demanded by testing have largely evolved.
Paul De Boeck, Paula Elosua
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Validity, Reliability, and Neither
Nursing Research, 1985Some studies of measuring instruments are validity studies. Others are reliability studies. Still others, such as the investigation of the stability of a construct and the correlation between the scores on two different levels of the same test, are neither.
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2016
Validity and reliability are central methodological concepts in psychiatric nosology. However, the notion of validity raises considerable difficulties due to the nature of psychiatric disorders. In this chapter, we discuss the two concepts, their interrelation, and their shortcomings.
Lennart Jansson, Julie Nordgaard
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Validity and reliability are central methodological concepts in psychiatric nosology. However, the notion of validity raises considerable difficulties due to the nature of psychiatric disorders. In this chapter, we discuss the two concepts, their interrelation, and their shortcomings.
Lennart Jansson, Julie Nordgaard
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2018
Objective: To evaluate the reliability and validity of a semistructured measure of obsessive-compulsive symptom severity in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Method: Sixty-five children with OCD (25 girls and 40 boys, aged 8 to 17 years) were assessed with the Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS ...
Ralph O. Mueller, Thomas R. Knapp
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Objective: To evaluate the reliability and validity of a semistructured measure of obsessive-compulsive symptom severity in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Method: Sixty-five children with OCD (25 girls and 40 boys, aged 8 to 17 years) were assessed with the Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS ...
Ralph O. Mueller, Thomas R. Knapp
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2010
The concepts of validity and reliability of measures are defined (and also assessed) differently in C-OAR-SE than in conventional psychometric theory. Acceptance of the new definitions of validity and reliability is essential if you want to apply C-OAR-SE.
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The concepts of validity and reliability of measures are defined (and also assessed) differently in C-OAR-SE than in conventional psychometric theory. Acceptance of the new definitions of validity and reliability is essential if you want to apply C-OAR-SE.
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1981
One day, sometime in the future, one of your children may come running in from school eagerly reporting to you that he got 80 in a test on arithmetic problems and 115 on an IQ test. As a parent you may initially be quite proud and satisfied but as a psychologist your training will start to make you ponder on that information.
R. B. Burns, C. B. Dobson
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One day, sometime in the future, one of your children may come running in from school eagerly reporting to you that he got 80 in a test on arithmetic problems and 115 on an IQ test. As a parent you may initially be quite proud and satisfied but as a psychologist your training will start to make you ponder on that information.
R. B. Burns, C. B. Dobson
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