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Direct linkHadis, Benjamin F. – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 2005
Criterion and construct validation analyses support the use of both retrospective questions in lieu of a pretest and a methodological innovation to compensate for the absence of a control group in a program evaluation that calls for an unavailable experimental design. The findings obtained with this method present evidence that study abroad…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Research Design, Program Evaluation, Study Abroad
Bauman, Sheri – Professional School Counseling, 2006
This article describes comparison group research designs and discusses how such designs can be used in school counseling research to demonstrate the effectiveness of school counselors and school counseling interventions. The article includes a review of internal and external validity constructs as they relate to this approach to research. Examples…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Research Design, Counseling Effectiveness, School Counselors
Smith, Gregory T. – Psychological Assessment, 2005
Fifty years ago, L. J. Cronbach and P. E. Meehl (1955) advocated for the concept of construct validity, noting that psychologists study hypothetical, inferred entities and that validating measures of such entities involves basic theory testing. Three important developments in clinical assessment following that seminal article are noteworthy.…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Measurement Techniques, Psychologists, Measures (Individuals)
Peer reviewedRisucci, Donald A.; Tortolani, Anthony J. – Academic Medicine, 1990
The paper reviews a construct validation framework for research on the selection and evaluation of residents. The application of the proposed methodology to surgery residents is described. The need to measure non-cognitive and neuropsychological factors in addition to cognitive knowledge and technical ability is emphasized. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Competence, Construct Validity, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education
Hoyt, William T.; Warbasse, Rosalia E.; Chu, Erica Y. – Counseling Psychologist, 2006
Counseling psychology researchers devote little attention to theory-based measurement validation, as evidenced by cursory mention of validity issues in the method and discussion sections of published research reports. Especially, many researchers appear unaware of the limitations of correlations between pairs of self-report measures as evidence of…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Counseling Psychology, Correlation, Researchers
Download full textRuss-Eft, Darlene F. – 1980
With increasing reliance being placed on the results of their surveys, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) recognized a need for these survey results to be valid and reliable. As part of the work of the Statistical Analysis Group in Education (SAGE), an effort was undertaken to investigate validity and reliability in survey…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Content Validity, Data Collection
