IMED2003 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Criterion Validity, Face Validity, Discriminant Validity

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Validity types: content validity (which includes face validity, face validity and content validity are two closely related forms of validity, they are the minimum requirement of acceptance of a scale, criterion validity, which includes: Predictive validity: construct validity, which includes: The degree to which a question appears effective in terms of its stated aims. It is an assessment of whether a measurement scale looks reasonable. Understandable and perceived as relevant by the subjects to ensure their. Face validity is not tested using statistical procedures. Mmpi: depression: i believe in the second coming of christ . The extent to which one can generalize from a particular collection of items to all possible items that would be representative of a specified domain of items. (nunnaly, 1978) Extent to which a measure represents all facets of a given construct. A scale has included all the relevant and excluded irrelevant issues in terms of its content .