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Week 11 and 12: Reliability and Validity Flashcards

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1
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Define reliability

A

Consistency in measurement

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2
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List 3 ways that consistency of scores occurs when re-examining the same people

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  • the same test on different occasions
  • different set of items measuring the same thing
  • different conditions of testing
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3
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What is standard error of measurement?

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An estimate of the amount of error usually attached to an examinee’s obtained score

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4
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What is a confidence interval

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Confidence that you have that the population mean is within that interval

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5
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What are some sources of random error?

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  • test construction
  • test administration
  • test scoring and interpretation
  • test construction error
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6
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List the ways of testing reliability

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  • cronbach’s alpha
  • test retest
  • split half
  • item total correlations
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7
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How big should a reliability coefficient be?

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Above .8, preferably .9

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8
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What does cronbach’s alpha measure

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A set of all possible correlations between test items

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9
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What is split half reliability

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Taking half the items and seeing how they correlate with the other half

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What are item total correlations

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Getting the item and comparing it to the rest of the scale

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11
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What is test-retest reliability

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  • correlation between two testing intervals
  • stability over time
  • uses Pearson’s r
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12
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What are some problems with test-retest reliability

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  • affected by factors associated with how the test is administered on each occasion
  • carryover effect: remember answer, practice effect
  • should only be used for meaningful data
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13
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Internal consistency

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The correlations between different items on the same test, or with the entire test

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Kuder-richardson reliability and coefficient alpha

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  • based on the intercorrelations among all comparable parts f the test
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Kuder-richardson formula 20

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  • calculated by the proportion of people who pass and fail each item and the variance of the test scores
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16
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Inter-rater reliability

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  • agreement through multiple raters

- measured using a kappa statistic

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Kappa statistic

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Measures inter rater agreement for qualitative (categorical) items

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18
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Parallel-forms reliability

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Equivalent forms of the same test are administered to the same group

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19
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Types of reliability

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  • inter-rater
  • test-retest
  • split half
  • parallel forms
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20
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Validity

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The extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure

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21
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What are the three types of validity

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  • content
  • criterion related
  • construct
22
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Content validity

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Degree to which content (items) represents behaviour/characteristics associated that trait

23
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What are the two types of criterion validity

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Predictive and concurrent

24
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What is criterion validity

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The relationship between test scores and some type of criterion or outcome, such as ratings, classifications or other test scores

25
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Concurrent validity

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Refers to whether the test scores are related to some CURRENTLY AVAILABLE criterion measure

26
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Predictive validity

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The correlation between a test and criterion obtained at a FUTURE time e.g. ATAR scores predicting success at uni

27
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Validity coefficient

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Correlation between test scores and some criterion

28
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What are the two types of construct validity?

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Convergent and discriminant

29
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Construct validity

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The extent to which a test measures a psychological construct or trait

30
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Convergent validity

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Convergent validity takes two measures that are supposed to be measuring the same construct and shows that they are related.

31
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Discriminant validity

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Discriminant validity shows that two measures that are not supposed to be related are in fact, unrelated.

32
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List the types of reliability

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  • test-retest
  • internal
  • interrater
33
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In test-retest reliability, what are some sources that might affect a result?

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  • time
  • place
  • mood
  • temperature
  • noise
34
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What are some core issues with content validity?

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  • the appropriateness of the questions and domain relevance
  • comprehensiveness
  • level of mastery assessed
35
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What are some procedures to ensure content validity?

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  • specialist panels to map content domain
  • accurate test specifications
  • communication of validation procedures in test manual
36
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What are some applications of content validity?

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  • achievement and occupational tests

- usually not appropriate for personality or aptitude tests

37
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What is standard error

A

The population level of standard deviation

38
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Do we want small or large SEM

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Small, because larger lowers reliability and increases confidence intervals

39
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Which confidence level is most common?

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z = 1.96 (95%)

40
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Why are confidence intervals better than p-values

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  • p value is a random arbitrary number
  • p values are biased towards high samples
  • p-values don’t pick up on small effects that reoccur consistently
41
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When is a confidence interval result significant

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When the confidence interval doesn’t overlap 0

42
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Why are effect sizes beneficial?

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They address significant affects that don’t mean much in real life e.g. does someone .5 higher on depression really have a worse time

43
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How can test scoring and interpretation be a source of random error (reliability)?

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Because projective tests are all answered differently, there is a large role for inter rater disagreement e.g. TAT, rorschach

44
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What is the domain sampling model?

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Test items represent a sample of all possible items

45
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What is the reliability ratio

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Variance of observed score on test divided by variance of true score on long test

46
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How many items should you have for optimal reliability

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10

47
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List some examples of concurrent validity

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  • depression scale and clinical interview
  • 2 measures at a similar time
  • IQ and exam scores
48
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To be concurrently valid what kind of assessments should the measure be correlated with

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The gold standard

49
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What kind of test do you use for predictive validity

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Multivariate ANOVA

50
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What test do you use for convergent validity

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Factor analysis

51
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The lower reliability, the…

A

Higher the error in a test

52
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The larger the Standard error of measurement, the

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Less precise measurements and larger confidence intervals

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