Validity
- 1 January 1979
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
In Chapter 1 we defined validity as the extent to which any measuring instrument measures what it is intended to measure. However, as we pointed out in Chapter 1, strictly speaking, “One validates, not a test, but an interpretation of data arising from a specified procedure” (Cronbach, 1971: 447). The distinction is central to validation because it is quite ...Keywords
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