Chapter 5 Flashcards
Facts
It’s is not possible to calculate reliability, researchers can only estimate

Validity Definition
Wether the scale measures what it was intended to measure
Reliability to Validity Relationship
- low reliability to low validity - high reliability to low validity - high reliability to high validity
Face Validity
Examines how the test appears - the logical sense of the survey
Criterion- Related Validity
Measure one topic in two different ways
Construct Validity
measures a concept that is not actually observable
Content Validity
How well a test measures the specific content intended to measure
What are the four types of Validity?
- Face Validity - Criterion - Related Validity - Construct Validity - Content Validity
What are the nine threats to Internal Validity?
- History 2. Maturation 3. Testing 4. Instrumentation 5. Regression 6. Ceiling and floor effects 7. Attrition 8. Selection 9. Hawthorn effect
Internal Validity: History
When an event happens during research that influences the behavior of participating individuals
Internal Validity: Maturation
The natural change that occurs over time with individuals
Internal Validity: Testing
Differences noted from pre-test to post test that can be attributed to students becoming familiar with the test
Internal Validity: Instrumentation
Measures changes in respondent performance which cannot be credited to the treatment or intervention
Internal Validity: Regression
Some respondents performing well on pre-test and poorly on post-test Orr vice versa merely by chance
Reliability definition
Related to consistency or ability to repeat results
Internal Validity: Instrumentation
Measures changes in respondent performance which cannot be credited to the treatment or intervention
Internal Validity: Regression
Some respondents performing well on pretests and poorly on posttests or vice versa merely by chance
Internal Validity: Ceiling and floor effects
- Ceiling effect is when all participating individuals perform extremely well on a pretest and posttest 1. Floor effect occurs when individual performance starts out low and remains low
Internal Validity: Attrition
Individuals lost from the study
Internal Validity: Selection
When participating individuals are different at the onset of the study
Internal Validity: Hawthorne effect
Workers at the Western Electric Company in Hawthorne, Illinois improved their performance when they know that they are being watched
Generalizability
Generalizability is linked to independent variables
Independent variables
variables that researchers manipulate and control
Dependent variables
variables are fixed and not manipulated
