Research Methods - Reliability and Validity

The students’ scores on their classroom compliance that is obtained using a scale is corelated with their teacher’s rating of their ability.

• Concurrent validity

• Predictive validity

• Face validity

• Content validity

The items in the scale represent what the research aims to measure.

• Content validity

• Convergent Validity

• Test-retest reliability

• Internal reliability

Score on the social pressure scale of a group of people has been found not the same with the score of peer relationship satisfaction scale.

• Test-retest reliability /unreliability

• Convergent validity /invalidity

• Discriminant validity /invalidity

• Inter-rater reliability /invalidity

The scores of participants’ impulsiveness obtained using a scale can predict the participants’ future performance on decision making is ___________ validity.

The format and words for each item on the scale are appropriate for the age of the sample..

• Internal reliability

• External reliability

• Inter-rater validity

• Face validity

A research that aim to investigate people tendency on seeking psychological help recruited sample from psychiatric ward.

• Sampling reliability

• Sampling validity

• Ecological reliability

• Ecological validity

A research result conducted on African American samples is being applied and generalized to Malaysian.

• Contextual unreliability

• Result invalidity

• Sampling invalidity

• Ecological invalidity

The research gap derives from the literature review, and research question formulated is matched with the aim of the research, as well as the research gap.

Cronbach alpha is also known as

• external validity.

• internal reliability.

• internal validity.

• external reliability.

A scale that give a consistent result after it was used multiple times over the years on different groups of samples that have similar characteristics.