Validity in Educational and Psychological Assessment

By Colin Foster. Assessment and Development Matters, 2014

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Validity and Validation The Genesis of Validity: Mid-1800s-1951 The Fragmentation of Validity: 1952-1974 The (Re)Unification of Validity: 1975-1999 The Deconstruction of Validity: 2000-2012 Twenty-first-century Evaluation

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The problem of assessing problem solving: can comparative judgement help? (2015, background): “Two common approaches exist for investigating whether an assessment has construct validity (Newton & Shaw, 2014).”
• Introductory programming: a systematic literature review (2018, background): “Although validity is a spectrum rather than an absolute [472], there are several ways that methodological rigour could”
• Assessment and learning: fields apart? (2017, unknown): “However, test validation theory (Newton & Shaw, 2014) appears to have outstripped practice, with little work being published on the validation of educational assessments (Wolming & Wikström, 2010).”
• Rethinking Traditional Methods of Survey Validation (2017, unknown): “As is now well documented (e.g., Borsboom et al., 2004; Newton & Shaw, 2014), the strong empiricism of the early 20th century was also associated with validation programs that relied heavily on correlations between test scores and other outcomes: Correlational data was interpreted not just as…”