Exam 9: Validity,reliability,and Triangulated Strategies

Content validity sometimes called concept validity)is perhaps the most theoretical and philosophically basic question.

Triangulated strategies for examining crime in public housing include mortality and morbidity data for intentional injuries.

Identify and discuss the three primary methods of attempting to demonstrate reliability.

__________ asks,"Does my measuring instrument in fact measure what it claims to measure?" "Is it an accurate or true measure of the phenomenon under study?"

__________ refers to the accuracy of the measuring instrument in predicting current status concurrent validity)or future status predictive validity).

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

Split-half reliability does not involve retesting and substitutes the assessment of internal consistency for temporal consistency;each half of a scale is analyzed as if it were a separate scale.

Which of the following types of reliability asks the question 'when the same instrument is administered at least twice to the same group,are the results or scores the same or stable)'?

In the bilateral test 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.

Which of the following refers to the accuracy of the instrument in measuring that which is intended?

Which of the following types of reliability asks the question 'does the administration of a disguised or alternate version of the same instrument to the same group result in the same stable)score's?

Which of the following types of validity asks the question 'does the instrument work in practically distinguishing current status concurrent validity)or future outcomes predictive validity)of the concept being measured'?

Which of the following is a means of determining reliability in which the same instrument is administered twice to the same population?

__________ 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.

One of the reasons for the lack of validation studies in criminal justice include inadequate funding.

__________ entails examining each item-the content of an instrument-to judge whether each element measures the concept in question.

Which of the following refers to the different measures of the same concept should yield similar results,whereas the same measure of different concepts should yield differ results?

Which of the following is a form that is administered one time to one group and then split in half and inter-correlated.

Convergent-discriminant validation involves the use of multiple methods to measure multiple traits.

__________ sometimes called concept validity)is perhaps the most theoretical and philosophically basic question.