Construct validity

What are human beings? What is our purpose in life? These are some of the questions that come to our minds as human beings. How do we begin to understand these thoughts? As self-conscience individuals, we turn to philosophy to help comprehend these questions. One may ask themselves what is philosophy? Three words to sum up philosophy, Love of Wisdom. Philosophy takes our curious minds to answer abstract questions. Philosophy can not only play a role in school, but it can also benefit lives of…

Supreme Court ruled that because state cannot abridge the contract, city cannot abridge contracts either, thus Eau Claire city’s argument was upheld. This is an illustration of the Supreme Court verify Dillon’s rule’s validity. Lastly, when the city of Louisville, Kentucky, tried to construct a municipal zoo, it was stuck by court cases which claimed that the city did not have the power to establish a zoo. Although the court cases eventually subsided, it…

Monica Patel ECON 4210 10/29/14 Problem Set 2 The 2007-2009 financial crisis originated in the United States, and was primarily caused by the introduction of subprime mortgages. In the years leading up to the crisis, new methods for evaluating risk surfaced and this allowed financial institutions to offer borrowers with higher risk a new type of mortgage, known as a subprime mortgage. These subprime mortgages were then bundled into various types of securities, all done with the intention to…

Such statement is powerful considering it provides validity to her writing, as she is indisputably oppressed to vast extents; being a woman, black, and a lesbian. Her claims and points of erotic empowerment come to be more effective as she is living under and experiencing all the effects of an oppressive…

A question that I have been considering lately, especially in light of reading Plato’s Republic, is whether or not education should be compulsory in a modern society and, more generally, if it is ultimately the responsibility of the government or the citizens to provide and regulate it. As is presumably the case with all LASA students, I have invested a comparatively high amount of time and effort into my education, and so I will naturally be biased toward emphasizing its benefits, though I will…

items measuring insulin use. Fitzgerald et al. (2016) tested the DKT2 instrument by conducting a study on two samples of diabetes patients. The reliability or internal consistency of the instrument was determined using Cronbach’s alpha while the construct validity was determined by performing hypothesis tests to confirm the relationships between test scores and related variables (Fitzgerald et al., 2016). The findings of the study showed that the DKT2 instrument is both reliable (alphas ≥ .70)…

mountains, hungry and restless, restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do, to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut anything, any burden to bear, for food… Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land” (233). Proving the validity of the system, humans share commonality of group behavior with nature. As a result, America transforms into a thriving whole, with individuals acting like ants; each member of society with a purpose, thus, contributing to a functioning colony…

Prejudice and discrimination have many undesirable impacts. In the workplace setting, they are related to workplace bullying, lower productivity, lower employee engagement, turnover, workplace deviance, and burnout. (Deitch et al., 2003; Ragins & Cornwell, 2001). From the societal aspect, they might result in social unrest, riot and ethnic cleansing that could cause destruction, affecting tourism and foreign company investments (Ahmed, 1995; Green & Seher, 2003). These could have a disastrous…

& McDaniel, M.A. (1996) ‘A meta-analytic investigation of cognitive ability in employment interview evaluations: Moderating characteristics and implications for incremental validity’. Journal of Applied Psychology. 81 pp. 459-473. Cited in Schmidt, F. & Hunter, J. (1998) ‘The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 85 Years of Research Findings’. Psychological Bulletin. 124(2) pp. 262-274. Keenan, T. (1995)…

Higher education institutions are now more than ever being pushed to provide large amounts of data and information to accrediting bodies and governing boards. This push for continuous evaluation and improvement has increased the need for new ways to measure student learning and development (Kuh, Pace, and Vesper, 1997). Institutions have turned to student surveys as a convenient avenue for assessing outcomes that would be impractical or difficult to measure with existing tools (Astin, 1993).…