Educational measurementReproducibility of resultsContext All assessments in medical education require evidence of validity to be interpreted meaningfully. In contemporary usage, all validity is construct validity, which requires multiple sources of evidence; construct validity is the whole of validity, but ...
Measurement and Meaning: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for the Analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Latin America. World Bank Techn... Over the past decade, the World Bank has evolved its analysis and reporting on poverty to a multi-dimensional view which includes issues of...
Gender needs to be considered when establishing construct validity due to differences in the meaning of aggression, impacts of abuse, and even patterns of violence for women and men. External threats to validity include potential bias of self-report and motivations when reporting on a partner, ...
• Validity gives meaning to the test scores. Validity evidence indicates that there is linkage between test performance and job performance. It can tell you what you may conclude or predict about someone from his or her score on the test. If a test has been demonstrated to be a validpred...
Charles S.Reichardt, inEncyclopedia of Social Measurement, 2005 Construct Validity Construct validityconcerns the identification of the causes, effects, settings, and participants that are present in a study. For example, a medication might have an effect not because its putative active ingredients are...
content validityverification that the method of measurement actually measures what it is expected to measure; see alsoface validity. external validitythe extent to which study findings can be generalized beyond the sample used in the study.
Moreover, several studies showed that for many healthcare staff and professionals, the meaning of evidence-based practice was not clear, and their knowledge, attitude, performance, educational status, and occupational experience on this issue were insufficient [43,44,45]. In this regard, a review...
Truth and Evidence in Validity Theory According to Kane (this issue), "the validity of a proposed interpretation or use depends on how well the evidence supports" the claims being made. Because... D Borsboom,KA Markus - 《Journal of Educational Measurement》 被引量: 22发表: 2013年 ...
Objective To construct quality measures with measurement validity and meaning for clinicians. Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study of rates of ... KL Kahn,CH Maclean,H Liu,... - 《Arthritis & Rheumatism》 被引量: 36发表: 2010年 Use of the mental function index in older adults. ...
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