EDAPT VALIDITY AND EVALUATING
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY SHEET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Validity is an overall evaluation of
Answer: the degree to which a specific interpretation of a test's results is
supported.
●● Validity focuses on
Answer: the accuracy of the interpretations
●● Validity is the appropriateness and legitimacy of the
Answer: inferences and claims, interpretations and uses made from test
scores. Is the interpretation made from the test results reasonable?
●● Validity should be determined by
Answer: the intended use of the test
●● there is no such thing as a
Answer: "valid test"
●● Validity is the most fundamental consideration
, Answer: in developing and evaluating tests
●● validity is always a matter of degree
Answer: depending on the situation.
●● Why is validity important?
Answer: teachers use the results of assessments to make decisions about
students, appropriate educational decisions depend on the accuracy of
educational assessment.
●● Valdity evidence
Answer: test content, response processes, tests internal structure,
relations to other variables.
●● How is validity determined
Answer: by professional judgement, analysis is done by accumulating
evidence that would suggest that an inference or use is appropriate and
whether the consequences of the interpretations and uses are reasonable
and fair
●● problems with tests regarding validity
Answer: content underpepresentation, test of overall reading
comprehension that doesn't incclude certain kinds of reading passages,
construct irrelevant variance.
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY SHEET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Validity is an overall evaluation of
Answer: the degree to which a specific interpretation of a test's results is
supported.
●● Validity focuses on
Answer: the accuracy of the interpretations
●● Validity is the appropriateness and legitimacy of the
Answer: inferences and claims, interpretations and uses made from test
scores. Is the interpretation made from the test results reasonable?
●● Validity should be determined by
Answer: the intended use of the test
●● there is no such thing as a
Answer: "valid test"
●● Validity is the most fundamental consideration
, Answer: in developing and evaluating tests
●● validity is always a matter of degree
Answer: depending on the situation.
●● Why is validity important?
Answer: teachers use the results of assessments to make decisions about
students, appropriate educational decisions depend on the accuracy of
educational assessment.
●● Valdity evidence
Answer: test content, response processes, tests internal structure,
relations to other variables.
●● How is validity determined
Answer: by professional judgement, analysis is done by accumulating
evidence that would suggest that an inference or use is appropriate and
whether the consequences of the interpretations and uses are reasonable
and fair
●● problems with tests regarding validity
Answer: content underpepresentation, test of overall reading
comprehension that doesn't incclude certain kinds of reading passages,
construct irrelevant variance.
