Rethinking validity in educational assessment

Validity Semantics in Educational and Psychological Assessment - Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation

The semantics, or meaning, of validity is a fluid concept in educational and psychological testing. Contemporary controversies surrounding this concept appear to stem from the proper location of validity. Under one view, validity is a property of score-based inferences and entailed uses of test scores. This view is challenged by the instrument-based approach, which contends that tests themselve...

Rethinking the Validity of Cadaver Infusion Experiments

Previous dye-infusion experiments on cadavers have suggested that the hindfoot should be divided into four muscle compartments including a newly described ‘calcaneal’ element containing quadratus plantae. Since there are no clinical data to support this proposed division, we re-examined the validity of the infusion experiment. We made infusions of dilute Omnipaque at a constant rate into flexor...

On the Educational Validity of Research in Educational Technology

Alsop and Tompsett argued in 2007 that research in educational technology was over-focused on technological design and that empirical research that was pertinent to educational change should be assessed against two distinct scales. The first considers the quality of the experimental design in validating the conclusions that are reached, whilst the second assesses the extent to which the experim...

Construct validity and case validity in assessment.

Clinical assessment relies on both construct validity, which focuses on the accuracy of conclusions about a psychological phenomenon drawn from responses to a measure, and case validity, which focuses on the synthesis of the full range of psychological phenomena pertaining to the concern or question at hand. Whereas construct validity is grounded in understanding causal influences of a distinct...

Journal of Educational Psychology Complex Problem Solving in Educational Contexts—Something Beyond g: Concept, Assessment, Measurement Invariance, and Construct Validity