Chapter 14

The type of validity that seeks to demonstrate that the explanation of a particular event, issue, or set of data that a piece of research provides can be sustained by the data and the research.

• Internal Validity

• External Validity

• Construct Validity

• Content Validity

The type of validity which refers to the degree to which the results can be generalized to the wider population, cases, settings, times, or situations, that is, the transferability of the findings.

• Internal Validity

• External Validity

• Construct Validity

• Content Validity

To demonstrate this type of validity, the instrument must show that it fairly and comprehensively covers the domain or items that it purports to cover

• Internal Validity

• External Validity

• Construct Validity

• Content Validity

In observational research, which of the following threats to validity occurs when participants modify their behavior because they are aware they are being observed?

• Observer bias

• Inter-rater reliability

• Hawthorne effect

• Lack of representativeness

A researcher conducts an experiment where students take the same test twice under identical conditions, two weeks apart. The researcher then compares the scores. Which type of reliability is being assessed?

• Inter-rater reliability

• Internal consistency reliability

• Test-retest reliability

• Split-half reliability

Which of the following best describes the relationship between reliability and validity in educational assessments?

• A test can be reliable without being valid, but it cannot be valid without being reliable.

• A test must be valid first before it can be reliable.

• If a test is reliable, it is automatically valid.

• Reliability and validity are independent of each other in assessment design.

Two types of validity that are considered as two sides of the same coin

• Catalytic and Criterion-related validity

• Content and Consequential validity

• Cultural and content validity

• Convergent and discriminant validity