Free AccessOn Consequential ValidityDragos Iliescu and Samuel GreiffDragos IliescuDragos Iliescu, Faculty of Psychology Educational Sciences, University Bucharest, Sos. Panduri 90, 050657 Romania, E-mail [email protected] Romania Search for more papers by this author Greiff Institute Cognitive Science Assessment (COSA), Luxembourg, Luxembourg authorPublished Online:June 03, 2021http...

Numeric values of psychological measures often have an arbitrary character before research has grounded their meanings, thereby providing what S. J. Messick (1995) called consequential validity (part of which H. Blanton and J. Jaccard, 2006, this issue, now identify as metric meaningfulness). Some measures are predisposed by their design to acquire meanings easily, an example being the sensitiv...

Measurement scholar Samuel Messick, defines validity as “an integrated evaluative judgment of the degree to which empirical evidence and theoretical rationales support the adequacy and appropriateness of inferences and actions based on test scores. . . ” (p. 13). Messick’s definition of validity differed from those of previous validity theorists in that he acknowledged that test scores often af...

    Consequential validity, a component of construct validity as a unified concept introduced by Messick(1989), deals with the impacts of tests on teaching, learning, individual test takers, teachers, society, and educational system within a country. Although the impacts of language tests on teaching and learning have been somehow studied, the consequences of ESP tests on individual test taker...

This research study explores teacher and student perceptions to verify consequential validity the potential washback effect of a locally developed university-level English language proficiency test which consists reading listening-to-writing assessment tasks. The integrated is used upon completion preparatory program in Turkish context determine learners’ access further medium academic courses ...

A patient's trusting attitude towards technology used in their medical care may be a predictor of acceptance or rejection of the technology and, by extension, the physician. The aim of this study was to rigorously determine the validity of an instrument for measuring patients' trust in medical technology. Instrument validity was established based on a framework, which included test and data evi...

Despite the advance of collaborative learning in higher education, there is a tension between its assessment and orientation on students’ individual domain-specific abilities (e.g., knowledge and/or skills) most education curricula. We examined construct consequential validity group assessment, combined learning. Findings showed that these methods can vary widely within across cohorts. In view ...