EDAPT VALIDITY AND EVALUATING TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED STUDY RESOURCE
●● Which term explains an influence that can distort study results or
conclusions?
Answer: Bias
●● __________ is the extent a tool or method measures what it is
supposed to measure.
__________ is the measure of consistency.
Answer: Validity
Reliability
●● Which situation is not possible?
Answer: Low reliability and high validity
●● Match the type of validity to the definition.
Answer: *Internal validity* - The study establishes a trustworthy cause-
and-effect relationship between a treatment and an outcome.
, *External validity* - How the study results are applicable in other
settings or the generalizability of the study results.
*Construct validity* - Does the test measure what it is supposed to
measure?
*Content validity* - Are the test items fully representative of the entire
domain it is intended to measure?
*Conclusion validity* - The conclusions of the study are reasonable.
●● The nurse is conducting a qualitative study that utilizes coding as a
data analysis method. There are two researchers coding the data and they
reach different conclusions on the codes that are applied to interview
transcript data. This is an issue of __________ reliability.
Answer: Inter-rater
●● Which methods can be utilized to increase the quality of a research
study? Select all that apply.
Answer: Provide quotations from transcribed interviews
Detailed audit trail
Use different methods of data collection
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED STUDY RESOURCE
●● Which term explains an influence that can distort study results or
conclusions?
Answer: Bias
●● __________ is the extent a tool or method measures what it is
supposed to measure.
__________ is the measure of consistency.
Answer: Validity
Reliability
●● Which situation is not possible?
Answer: Low reliability and high validity
●● Match the type of validity to the definition.
Answer: *Internal validity* - The study establishes a trustworthy cause-
and-effect relationship between a treatment and an outcome.
, *External validity* - How the study results are applicable in other
settings or the generalizability of the study results.
*Construct validity* - Does the test measure what it is supposed to
measure?
*Content validity* - Are the test items fully representative of the entire
domain it is intended to measure?
*Conclusion validity* - The conclusions of the study are reasonable.
●● The nurse is conducting a qualitative study that utilizes coding as a
data analysis method. There are two researchers coding the data and they
reach different conclusions on the codes that are applied to interview
transcript data. This is an issue of __________ reliability.
Answer: Inter-rater
●● Which methods can be utilized to increase the quality of a research
study? Select all that apply.
Answer: Provide quotations from transcribed interviews
Detailed audit trail
Use different methods of data collection
