Background: Academic tests are valuable tools for evaluating students’ knowledge and capabilities. This study aimed to assess the content validity offinal examinations at Mashhad Dental School. The practical purpose of this study was to enhance the quality of written examinations in this school. Methods: The present descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed to determine the content validity of f...

Establishing adequacy of psychometric properties of an instrument involves acquisition and evaluation of evidence based on item content and internal structure. Content validity evidence consists of subject matter experts providing quantitative ratings of the extent to which items are a representative sample of targeted domain. Evidence of internal structure includes factor analytic studies and ...

1 Anne F. Klassen, DPhil Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Stefan Cano, PhD Modus Outcomes Boston, Mass. Andrea Pusic, MD, MSc Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, N.Y. Sir: W are writing in response to the article by Lee and Most1 describing a new patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument for rhinoplasty patients, that is, the RHINO Scale. This 10-item scale purports to measure satisfactio...

BACKGROUND Validity evidence based on test content is one of the five forms of validity evidence stipulated in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing developed by the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education. In this paper, we describe the logic and theory underlying such evidence and describ...

CIVIL rights legislation, the attendant actions of compliance agencies, and a few landmark court cases have provided the impetus for the extension of the application of content validity from academic achievement testing to personnel testing in business and industry. Pressed by the legal requirement to demonstrate validity, and constrained by the limited applicability of traditional criterion-re...