Sentences with phrase «face validity of a test»

The face validity of a test can be considered a robust construct only if a reasonable level of agreement exists among raters.

Not exact matches

Then (2) in face of the varieties of Christian proclamation and in view of the claim inherent in the nature of the synoptic gospel material (earthly Jesus = risen Lord), we may and we must use such historical knowledge of Jesus as we possess to test the validity of the claim of any given form of the Church's proclamation to be Christian proclamation.

We pilot tested scale validity in English - speaking (n = 90) and Spanish - speaking (n = 45) low - income mothers (median age of infant: 6 wk) by presenting the faces as 6 individual unlabeled cards and asking the women to place the cards in order from no pain to maximum pain.

LA JOLLA — With forensic science facing mounting scrutiny as it plays an increasingly prominent role in the administration of justice, six scientists who recently served on the National Commission on Forensic Science are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of outcomes.

By examining rigorous evidence about the validity of both of these tests, however, Massachusetts provides a model for other states facing difficult choices about whether and how to upgrade their assessment systems.

Without establishing the validity of state testing results, it is impossible to know whether the gains made by failing schools in other states were as large as those realized by failing schools that faced the prospect of vouchers in Florida.

Three items of the original 23 items were identified by at least one expert as lacking face validity and were removed from the test.

In 1992, the court questioned the validity of the physical presence test because of intervening rulings but stuck with the Bellas Hess rule as a matter of stare decisis, as well as the idea that mail - order retailers faced difficulties in complying with tax obligations from about 6,000 separate state and local taxing jurisdictions nationwide.

Validation of the survey instrument was performed through the assessment of internal and test - retest (external) reliability in addition to face and content validity.

However, the implications of items on tests with clear face validity is that they are more vulnerable to social desirability bias.

Having face validity does not mean that a test really measures what the researcher intends to measure, but only in the judgment of raters that it appears to do so.

A direct measurement of face validity is obtained by asking people to rate the validity of a test as it appears to them.

For example, the test item «I believe in the second coming of Christ» would lack face validity as a measure of depression (as the purpose of the item is unclear).

The authors also report the correlations of the FACES IV with the SFI, Family Satisfaction Scale and the Family Assessment Device (FAD) to test the scale's validity.

The discriminate validity of the FACES IV, tested by comparing it to the SFI and FAD, had a predictive accuracy of 92 % (Olson et al., 2007).