Validity
considers how suitable the content of a test seems to be on the surface. It’s similar to content validity, but face validity is a more informal and subjective assessment.
What is face validity?
The term reliability in psychological research refers to the consistency of a research study or measuring test.
What is reliability?
a factor inherent in a test that systematically prevents accurate, impartial measurement.
What is bias?
statistical technique that examines the relationship between a group of variables.
What is factor analysis?
The court accepted the argument of the plaintiff; in schools, blacks were being treated unfairly by placing them in special education based on the standardization of the present IQ tests. The court found that the IQ tests were designed with biases linked the white middle class culture, leaving black children at a natural disadvantage from both cultural and racial perspectives.
What is Larry P v Riles?
assesses whether a test is representative of all aspects of the construct.
What is content validity?
The split-half method assesses the internal consistency of a test, such as psychometric tests and questionnaires. There, it measures the extent to which all parts of the test contribute equally to what is being measured.
What is split-half reliability?
theoretical score that represents an individual’s typical level of performance
What is true score?
a measure of internal consistency, that is, how closely related a set of items are as a group
What is coefficient alpha?
The Federal Rules of Evidence recognize a psychotherapist-patient evidentiary privilege that extends to licensed social workers. the Court created a psychotherapist-patient privilege in the Federal Rules of Evidence.
What is Jaffey v Redmond?
evaluates whether a measurement tool really represents the thing we are interested in measuring. It’s central to establishing the overall validity of a method.
What is construct validity?
assesses the external consistency of a test. Examples of appropriate tests include questionnaires and psychometric tests. It measures the stability of a test over time.
What is test-retest reliability?
What is psychometrics?
a measure reliability for a test with binary variables
What is Kuder Richardson 20?
American psychologist and inventor of several widely used intelligence tests for adults and children.
Who is David Wechsler?
evaluates how well a test can predict a concrete outcome, or how well the results of your test approximate the results of another test.
What is construct validity?
This refers to the degree to which different raters give consistent estimates of the same behavior. Inter-rater reliability can be used for interviews.
What is inter-rater reliability?
defined as the proportion of people in the population that possess a particular trait, behavior, characteristic, or attribute.
What is base rate?
a terminology used mainly in the method of factor analysis
What is factor loading?
French psychologist who published the first modern intelligence test, the Binet-Simon intelligence scale, in 1905.
Who is Alfred Binet?
tells you how accurately a method measures something
What is validity?
a method of reliability in which we judge how well the items on a test that are proposed to measure the same construct produce similar results.
What is internal consistency?
one of the key issues that concern people about any testing procedure
What is fairness?
a plot of the probability that a test item is answered correctly against the examinee's underlying ability on the trait being measured.
What is item characteristic curve?
known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence.
Who is Francis Galton?