Validity

Question 1

Validity?

Answer 1

The extent to which a technique is capable of achieving the intended purpose

Question 2

Internal validity?

Answer 2

Refers to the test or measure being used

Question 3

What’s face validity ?

Answer 3

Whether a measure appears, at face value, to test what it claims to

Question 4

Criterion validity ?

Answer 4

Indicates whether a phenomenon measured in one way will relate to/predict some other related variables

Question 5

Concurrent validity ?

Answer 5

-A type of criterion validity
Whether a measure will produce a similar score for a particular individual as another test that claims to assess the same phenomenon.

Question 6

Construct validity ?

Answer 6

Whether a measure is based on some certain-to-exist phenomenon which it test

Question 7

External validity?

Answer 7

Whether findings will generalise to other populations, locations and times than the one investigated

Question 8

Population validity ?

Answer 8

The extent to which findings generalise to other populations