Validity and Reliability in Social Science Research
By Ellen A. Drost. Education, research and perspectives, 2011
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Concepts of reliability and validity in social science research are introduced and major methods to assess reliability and validity reviewed with examples from the literature. The thrust of the paper is to provide novice researchers with an understanding of the general problem of validity in social science research and to acquaint them with approaches to developing strong support for the validity of their research.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research
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Citations in the corpus
- Reliability and Inter-rater Reliability in Qualitative Research (2019, background): “The concept of reliability broadly describes the extent to which results are reproducible, for example, from one test to another or between two judges of behavior [29].”
- Factors influencing the acceptance and use of a bicycle sharing system: Applying an extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) (2020, background): “Determining the reliability of a research instrument is a vital step for studies exploring factors that influence behaviour as it illustrates to what extent the study is replicable to achieve similar results at different times and places (and thus often by different participants) (Rosenthal and Rosn”
- Principles and methods of validity and reliability testing of questionnaires used in social and health science researches (2015, background): “] Concurrent validity refers to the ability of a test to predict an event in the present form.”