Section outline

  • Lecture: Quantitative approaches to validity

    Traditional definitions of validity (3 C’s: Content, Criterion and Construct validity) and statistical methods to assess them (Index and Rovinelli & Hambleton Index for Content validity; correlation coefficients and multiple regression for Criterion-related validity; Multitrait-Multhimethod Matrix, Spearman correlation coefficient, chi-square and ANOVA (Factor Analysis) for Construct validity); new theories on validity of instruments (Goodman’s 24 types of validity); Consequential validity in health research.

    Faculty: Lydia Zablotska

    Location:  MH-1106

    • Recommended Reading:

    • Streiner 2015 Ch 10

    • Session Slides:

    • Slides for Week #2 File