PSYB32H3 Lecture 3: PSYB32 - Chapter 3
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Inter-rater reliability: refers to the degree to which two independent observes or judges agree. Test-retest reliability: measures the extent to which people being observed twice or taking the same test twice, score in generally the same way. Alternate form reliability: the extent to which scores on the two forms of the test are consistent. Internal consistency reliability: assesses whether the items on a test are related to one another. Validity: refers to whether a measure fulfills its intended purpose. Content validity: refers to whether a measure adequately samples the domain of interest. Criterion validity: evaluated by determining whether a measure is associated in an expected way with some other measure (the criterion: concurrent validity, predictive validity ex. Construct validity: relevant when we want to interpret a test as a measure of some characteristic or construct that is not simply defined.
