Research Methods - Validity

Question 1

What is internal validity and how can this be improved.

Answer 1

Internal validity is the extent to which we can say that test is measuring what it is supposed to be measuring and is due to the iv , this can be improved by carefully looking at extraneous variables and making sure it is minimised.

Question 2

What is population validity?

Answer 2

This how true the population of the sample is - how representative the sample is.

Question 3

What are the two ways of assessing validity?

Answer 3

Concurrent Validity and Face validity.

Question 4

What is face validity?

Answer 4

Face validity is a less rigorous way in testing to see weather its genuinely measuring what it is supposed to measure. - its simply seeing if the test appears at (face value) to measure what it claims

Question 5

What is concurrent validity?

Answer 5

= Concurrent validity this is seeing how much something agrees , it involves assessing how closely the scores on a test match a different measurement from the same participant