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Download full textMessick, Samuel – 1994
The traditional concept of validity divides it into three separate types; content, criterion, and construct validities. This view is fragmented and incomplete, failing to take into account evidence of the value implications of score meaning as a basis for action and of the social consequences of score use. The new unified concept of validity…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Criteria, Educational Assessment, Hypothesis Testing
