Assessment:

Validity and Reliability

Essential charactitics:
Validity
Reliability
Usability/assessibility
Objectivity
Administrability

Validity
The evaluation of the adequacy and appropriateness of
the interpretations and uses of assessment results .

Major consideration in assessment

validation:
Content considerations
Construct
Assessment-criterion relationship
Consequences

Factors that influence validity

The test itself (factors in the assessment itself)
Functioning of tasks and teaching procedures
Factors in administration and scoring
Factors in student responses
Nature of the group and the criterion

Types of validity
Content validity
Face validity
Construct validity
Predictive validity
Concurrent validity

Reliability
Provides the consistency that makes validity possible
Indicates the degree to which various kinds of
generalizations are justifiable