Exam 9: Validity,reliability,and Triangulated Strategies

Which of the following is another term for invalidity,and sources of potential error or invalidity are ever present,even in some of the best research?

__________ validation involves the use of multiple methods to measure multiple traits

The __________ for validation research is due to the human nature of organizational findings.

Define triangulation and provide examples of how triangulation strategies have been used in examining crime in public housing.

In the __________ method of determining reliability the same instrument is administered twice to the same population and,if the results are the same,stability of measurement is assumed.

Face validity,the simplest measurement,asks,"Does the measuring instrument appear,at face value,to be measuring what I am attempting to measure?"

Validity concerns the stability and consistency of measurement.

Which of the following refers to the accuracy of individual items in a scale in measuring the concept being measured?

Which of the following is an NIJ research program that asks volunteer arrestees to provide urine specimens to test for drug usage?

Which of the following types of reliability asks the question 'in the administration of the instrument to one group at one time,are separate halves of the instrument similar in response are they consistent)'?

__________ of measurement is determined by whether the set of items used to measure some phenomenon are highly related associated with each other)and measuring the same concept.

Drug Use Forecasting DUF),a research program sponsored by the National Institute of Justice NIJ),asked volunteers from a population of arrestees in various cities to provide urine specimens that are then tested for drugs.

Consistency of measurement is determined by whether,assuming that conditions rival causal factors)have not changed,a respondent will give the same answer to the same question on second testing.

__________ concerns the stability and consistency of measurement.

The unfavorable climate for validation research is due to the human nature of organizational findings.

Which of the following types of validity asks the question 'does the measuring instrument appear "at face value" to be measuring what I am attempting to measure'?

Which of the following refers to the accuracy of measurement;does my measuring instrument in fact measure what it claims to measure?

Which of the following refers to the accuracy of the scale or measurement in tapping the correct concept or construct?

__________ is demonstrated through stable and consistent replication of findings on repeated measurement.

__________ involve the administration of alternate forms of the instrument to the same group.