Reliability & Validity

Reliability refers to the extent to which an assessment method or instrument measures consistently the performance of the student.

• Reliability

• Validity

• Internal

• External

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It may include room temperature, noise level, depth of the instruction or teh quality of instruction, and the materials itself.

• Test - retest

• External Environment

• Parallel forms reliability

• Split-half reliability

A form of internal consistency reliability and had been commonly used before the coefficient α was invented.

• Split-half reliability

• Validity

• Parallel forms reliability

• Reliability & Validity

is a measure of reliability obtained by administering different versions of an assessment tool (both versions must contain items that probe the same construct, skill, knowledge base, etc.) to the same group of individuals.

The scores from Time 1 and Time 2 can then be correlated in order to evaluate the test for stability over time.

• Parallel forms reliability

• Internal

• Test-retest

• External

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is a measure of consistency used to evaluate the extent to which different judges agree in their assessment decisions.

High reliability is one indicator that a measurement is valid.

• Reliability

• Reliability & Validity

• Validity

• Internal - External Validity

Those are the Types of Validity EXCEPT.....

• Content validity

• Face validity

• Consistency Validity

• Predictive validity

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A conspicuous example is the degree to which college admissions test scores predict college grade point average (GPA)

If the test correlates too strongly with an IQ test then it essentially is just another IQ test instead of measuring something different.

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