Reliability and validity Flashcards

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Reliability

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The consistency of the test, measure or observer

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What’s a reliable measure

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One that produces the same results on different occasions

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Inter-rater reliability

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Running a correlation between the scores given by 2 or more judges

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Test-retest reliability

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Participants take part in the same test twice and the reliability is measured by correlating the scores on the tests

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Equivalent forms reliability

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Participants take 2 equivalent or similar forms of the same test and their scores are correlated

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Split half reliability

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Measure of internal consistency to see if each part of the test gives the same result as others so a single test is split into 2 or more parts and a correlation is run between them

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Validity

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Whether a test is measuring what it claims to be measuring

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Face/content validity

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Evaluating whether or not the test looks right and the content seems representative of the area being covered

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Concurrent validity

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Measured by comparing the results on a test to an independent measure of the same variable

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Ecological validity

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A measure of how test performance predicts behaviours in real world settings (external validity)

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Temporal validity

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The ability to generalise findings from a study to different time periods

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