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Reliability and Validity
Reliability and Validity
What are random error and systematic error, and how do they
influence measurement?
What is reliability? Why must a measure be reliable?
22 X 45 = 32 X 45 =
85 X (23-11) = 85 X (41-11) =
Questionnaire 2
Equivalent-Forms Item 1
Reliability
Item 2
Criterion Validity
The extent to which a self-report measure
correlates with a behavioral measured
variables.
Construct Validity
Face Validity
The extent to which the measured
variable appears to be an adequate
measure of the conceptual variables
Measured Conceptual
Variable X Variable
Construct Validity
Content Validity
The degree to which the measured
variable appears to have adequately
sampled from the potential domain
of question that might relate to
the conceptual variable of interest.
Sympathy
Verbal Aptitude
Convergent Validity
Interdependence Scale
The extent to which a measured variable
is found to be related to other measured
variables designed to measure the same
conceptual variable. Collectivism Scale
Discriminant Validity
Predictive Validity
Concurrent Validity
Conceptual Future
Variables behaviors
Face Validity
Predictive Validity
Other
Domain of the Measured Measured
CVs Variables Variables
(Self-Report) (Behavioral)
Content Validity Concurrent Validity