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Validity in Qualitative Inquiry
… and evaluation, relatively little is known about validity in qualitative inquiry. This dissertation includes an examination of the concept of validity as it applies to qualitative inquiry and a discussion of the estimation of validity--by researchers and research users.
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Moderation of Personality Test Validity
Personality testing can be an adequate instrument for prediction of future job performance. However, the predictive ability of these tests has been only moderate at best. This researcher attempted to determine if feedback would help improve the predictive ability of personality tests. The results …
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Validity and Validation in Psychology
… are most often associated with measurement are ‘validity’ on the one hand and ‘validation’ on the other. Validity is roughly understood as good measurement, while validation denotes the processes or practices needed to secure this property. These twin concerns will be the anchor points of the …
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VOCATIONAL INTERESTS: CONSTRUCT VALIDITY AND MEASUREMENT
… Masculinity/Femininity (M/F) (Study 1), (b) the validity of a new measure of vocational interests (Study 2), and (c) the individual difference characteristics that discriminate between students in various academic majors, and that predict academic outcomes (Study 3). In Study 1, vocational …
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Factorial Validity of a Rating Instrument
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Using Working Memory to Address the Validity-Diversity Dilemma: Incremental Validity and Subgroup Differences Compared to GMA
… predicted performance. In order to address this validity-diversity tradeoff, a more specific cognitive ability is examined – working memory (WM). Two-hundred participants (50% Black, 50% White) were given measures of GMA and WM before being presented with learning opportunities meant to teach …
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THE EXTERNAL VALIDITY OF RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS.
THE EXTERNAL VALIDITY OF RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS.
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Family quality of life: measurement and validity
… study is to examine convergent and divergent validity of the Family Quality of Life Survey-2006 by comparing it to other family measures, as well as to explore how these measures contribute to overall FQOL. Based on interviews with 30 families of children with developmental disabilities, …
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The ecological validity of prospective memory experimentation
… led to translational concerns to everyday life. Validity concerns surrounding laboratory PM tasks have been raised due to the lack of relationship between PM performance and measures of strategic monitoring, which is believed to be how much attention participants dedicate to the PM task. The …
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Performance Validity Testing in Baseline Concussion Assessment
… explore the utility of a stand-alone performance validity test (PVT) in detecting suboptimal effort using an analog simulation design. Simulators demonstrated significantly lower performance on measures of verbal memory, visual memory, visual motor speed, balance, symptom severity, reaction time, …
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The validity problem for extended regular expressions
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Item Properties and the Validity of Personality Assessment
… questionnaire items that can affect their validity, as measured by comparing self-ratings with roommate ratings on a series of personality questionnaires. The item properties under investigation included item content saturation, item social desirability, and mean item responses. Archival …
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Construct Validity Analysis of the Organizational Cohesion Scale
… present research attempted to provide construct validity for the OCS. Assessments of the convergent and discriminant validity of the OCS were conducted; although the results did not provide strong evidence for construct validity of the OCS, the confirmatory factor analysis and criterion validity …
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Aging and the Truth Effect in Validity Judgment
It is sometimes necessary to make validity judgments about information with which we are unfamiliar, because we have no factual knowledge about the event. Under these circumstances, subjective evidence, such as whether the statement has been seen or heard in the past, may be used to judge validity. …
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