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  title info:
    title: Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
  name:
    name part: Zumbo, Bruno D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Chan, Eric K.H.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 327 p. 15 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book combines an overview of validity theory, trends in validation practices, and a review of standards and guidelines in several international jurisdictions with research synthesis of the validity evidence in different research areas. An overview of theory is both useful and timely, in view of the increased use of tests and measures for decision-making, ranking, and policy purposes in large-scale testing, assessment, and social indicators and quality of life research. Research synthesis is needed to help us assemble, critically appraise, and integrate the overwhelming volume of research on validity in different contexts. Rather than examining whether any given measure is “valid”, the focus is on a critical appraisal of the kinds of validity evidence reported in the published research literature. The five sources of validity evidence discussed are: content-related, response processes, internal structure, associations with other variables, and consequences. The 15 syntheses included here, represent a broad sampling of psychosocial, health, medical, and educational research settings, giving us an extensive evidential basis to build upon earlier studies. The book concludes with a meta-synthesis of the 15 syntheses, and a discussion of the current thinking of validation practices by leading experts in the field.
  table of contents: Section I: Opening Section -- 1 Setting the Stage for and Purposes of Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences - Bruno D. Zumbo & Eric K. H. Chan -- 2 Review of Testing and Test Review Standards and Guidelines In Several International Jurisdictions - Eric K. H. Chan -- SECTION II: Quality of Life, Wellbeing and Life Satisfaction -- 3 Reporting of Measurement Validity in Articles Published in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement - Bruno D. Zumbo, Eric K. H. Chan, Michelle Y. Chen, Wen Zhang, Ira Darmawanti, & Olievia P. Mulyana -- 4 A Research Synthesis of Validation Practices Used to Evaluate the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) - Mary L. Chinni & Anita M. Hubley -- 5 Validation Practices in Counseling: Major Journals, Mattering Instruments and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS) - Eric K. H. Chan, David W. Munro, Alexander H. S. Huang, Bruno D. Zumbo, Roya Vojdanijahromi, & Neelam Ark -- SECTION III: Psychology and Education -- 6 What Counts as Evidence? An Empirical Review of Validity Studies in Educational and Psychological Measurement - Benjamin R. Shear & Bruno D. Zumbo -- 7 Validity evidence presented in the Journal of Educational Psychology across two temporal periods - Rebecca J. Collie & Bruno D. Zumbo -- 8 A review of validity evidence presented in the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (2002-2012): Misconceptions and recommendations for validation research - Katie E. Gunnell, Benjamin J. I. Schellenberg, Philip M. Wilson, Peter R. E. Crocker, Diane E. Mack & Bruno D. Zumbo -- 9 The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS): A Review of the Reported Validity Evidence - Hillary L. McBride, Rachel M. Wiens, Marvin J. McDonald, Daniel W. Cox, & Eric K. H. Chan -- 10 Validity theory and validity evidence for scores derived from the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire - Katie E. Gunnell, Philip M. Wilson, Bruno D. Zumbo, Peter R. E. C…
  note: edited by Bruno D. Zumbo, Eric K.H. Chan.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Medical research
  subject:
    topic: Educational psychology
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Psychometrics
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Quality of Life Research
  subject:
    topic: Psychometrics
  subject:
    topic: Quality of Life Research
  subject:
    topic: Educational Psychology
  classification: HN25
  classification: 306
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Social Indicators Research Series, 54
  identifier: 9783319077949
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07794-9
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    record creation date: 140926
    record change date: 20151030091218.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-07794-9