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Validity and Validation (Record no. 2325)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199791040
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 300.72
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Taylor, Catherine S.
9 (RLIN) 365794
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Validity and Validation
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United States;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press Inc;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 24 Oct 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 224 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The Understanding Research series focuses on the process of writing up social research. The series is broken down into three categories: Understanding Statistics, Understanding Measurement, and Understanding Qualitative Research. The books provide researchers with guides to understanding, writing, and evaluating social research. Each volume demonstrates how research should be represented, including how to write up the methodology as well as the research findings. Each volume also reviews how to appropriately evaluate published research. Validity and Validation is an introduction to validity theory and to the methods used to obtain evidence for the validity of research and assessment results. The book pulls together the best thinking from educational and psychological research and assessment over the past 50 years. It briefly describes validity theory's roots in the philosophy of science. It highlights the ways these philosophical perspectives influence concepts of internal and external validity in research methodology, as well as concepts of validity and reliability in educational and psychological tests and measurements. Each chapter provides multiple examples (e.g., research designs and examples of output) to help the readers see how validation work is done in practice, from the ways we design research studies to the ways we interpret research results. Of particular importance is the practical focus on validation of scores from tests and other measures. The book also addresses strategies for investigating the validity of inferences we make about examinees using scores from assessments, as well as how to investigate score uses, the value implications of score interpretations, and the social consequences of score use. With this foundation, the book presents strategies for minimizing threats for validity as well as quantitative and qualitative methods for gathering evidence for the validity of scores.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Research methods: general
9 (RLIN) 365795
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Social research & statistics
9 (RLIN) 365796
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Society and Politics 21/08/2016 3 300.72 PKLC001999 25/10/2017 21/08/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 2 03/10/2017
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore In Store 30/04/2016   300.72 PKLC001878 30/04/2016 30/04/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17