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Download full textMessick, Samuel – 1990
Validity is an integrated evaluative judgment of the degree to which empirical evidence and theoretical rationales support the adequacy and appropriateness of interpretations and actions based on test scores or other modes of assessment. The principles of validity apply not just to interpretive and action inferences derived from test scores as…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Content Validity, Criteria
