Validity
Reliability
Real World Examples
100

Test scores are accurate and appropriate.

What is validity?

100

Consistency in measurement.

What is reliability?

100

A teacher uses multiple choice test to test lab safety skills.

What is low validity.

200

Labeling a test as valid or invalid.

What is misleading and risky?

200

Consistent measurement supports dependable results.

What is the reason reliability is valued.

200

A presentation is scored using a rubric.

Valid 

300

Validity does not belong to the test.

What is it belongs to the interpretation and use of the scores?

300

Reliability tends to decrease.

What is when there is a gap between test administrations.

300

All questions target the same standard.

What is high consistency.

400

Gathering evidence, collecting evidence, combining both types of evidence.

What is building a validity argument?  

400

When students complete two equivalent versions of a test.

What is establishing alternate form reliability.

400

5 question test.

Low reliability

500

When teachers consider accuracy and purpose when creating tests.

What is produce better tests?

500

How consistently a test leads to the same decisions about students.

What is decision consistency estimates.

500

Using similar exit tickets over the course of several days.

What is high reliability.

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