Validity and validation

✍ Scribed by Taylor, Catherine S

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Series in understanding statistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Understanding Research series focuses on the process of writing up social research. The series is broken down into three categories: Understanding Statistics, Understanding Measurement, and Understanding Qualitative Research. The books provide researchers with guides to understanding, writing, and evaluating social research. Each volume demonstrates how research should be represented, including how to write up the methodology as well as the research findings. Each volume also reviews how to appropriately evaluate published research. Validity and Validation is an introduction to validity th. Read more...

Abstract: The Understanding Research series focuses on the process of writing up social research. The series is broken down into three categories: Understanding Statistics, Understanding Measurement, and Understanding Qualitative Research. The books provide researchers with guides to understanding, writing, and evaluating social research. Each volume demonstrates how research should be represented, including how to write up the methodology as well as the research findings. Each volume also reviews how to appropriately evaluate published research. Validity and Validation is an introduction to validity th

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Validity and validation in research and assessment --
Evidence for the internal validity of research results --
External threats to validity --
Validity of statistical conclusions --
Construct related evidence for validity --
Interpretation, use, and consequences of scores from assessments --
Validity theory and validation resources.

✦ Subjects

Social sciences -- Statistical methods. Social sciences -- Methodology. Research methods. REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.