Changing Conceptions of Measurement Validity: An Update on the New Standards
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SLACK, Inc. in Journal Of Nursing Education
- Vol. 41 (3), 100-106
- https://doi.org/10.3928/0148-4834-20020301-05
Abstract
This article serves as a follow up to a 1997 article in the Journal of Nursing Education, in which the author presented a historical overview of the ways in which views of measurement validity had changed during the past half century. The new American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, released in 1999, includes a revised conceptualization of validity. The key changes, including the elimination of the old "trinity" view of validity and the operationalization of validity as five types of evidence, are described in this article, and specific ways to obtain evidence of each type are provided. The article concludes with a brief discussion of some of the major continuing issues and challenges in validity theory and practice.Keywords
This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
- Psychometrics is Datametrics: the Test is not ReliableEducational and Psychological Measurement, 2000
- Persistent Methodological Questions in Educational TestingReview of Research in Education, 1999
- Using Focus Groups to Examine the Consequential Aspect of validityEducational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1998
- Selection and use of content experts for instrument developmentResearch in Nursing & Health, 1997
- The Evolution of Validity Theory: Public School Testing, the Courts, and Incompatible InterpretationsEducational Assessment, 1994
- Evaluating Test ValidityReview of Research in Education, 1993
- The Metamorphosis to Test ValidationEducational Psychologist, 1992
- Importance of Expert Judgment in Content-Related Validity EvidenceWestern Journal of Nursing Research, 1990
- Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix.Psychological Bulletin, 1959
- Construct validity in psychological tests.Psychological Bulletin, 1955