Validity

By U. Knoch, Susy Macqueen. 1973

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Citations in the corpus

• A comprehensive review of Rasch measurement in language assessment: Recommendations and guidelines for research (2020, background): “First, unidimensionality refers to whether a test measures the delineated latent trait that it purports to measure and not unintended constructs (Wright & Stone, 1999).”
• A Review of Key Likert Scale Development Advances: 1995–2019 (2021, background): “The first major perspective defines validity not as a property of tests but as a property of the interpretations of test scores (Messick, 1989; Kane, 1992).”
• Discrepancies between school grades and test scores at individual and school level: effects of gender and family background (2008, background): “In the construct-centred or ‘‘unified’’ concept of validity, construct validity subsumes and integrates different aspects of validity (Messick, 1989).”