Validity

While there were no ethical issues, this study had a few limitations. One involving reliance on the self-report measures of abuse, neglect and self-harm that it provides no way to differentiate the actual occurrence of any of these. Other limitations discussed how the study was correlational and cross-sectional by nature, and that it is possible the order of these relationships is completely different than what results showed. For example, although theoretical literature suggests that affect…

Prompt 2. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the lightness constancy and how it works. Including how the visual system works with constancies, to properly attribute uniform color to a surface. The way to go about the task is with an example. Imagine there are two surfaces next to each other. One appears uniformly white since the light source is evenly distributed throughout the surface. The other has surface patches, a non-uniformity in the light being reflected off of the surface. So…

One of the key criteria addressed by positivist researchers is that of internal validity, in which they seek to ensure that their study measures or tests what is actually intended. According to Merriam (1998), the qualitative investigator’s equivalent concept is analogous to internal validity and deals with the question: “How congruent are the research findings with reality. However, according to the philosophy underlying qualitative research, reality is relative to meaning that people construct…

to scientific validity and is based on Parker's (1993) article on the same. This article is relevant to the gaming industry as most of the points regarding the validity of a research can be related to the gaming industry and it is further explained in this paper. Scientific Validity Types of validity In this paper the scientific validity of research is categorized into four types of validity: internal, external, statistical conclusion, and construct validity. Each of these validity have their…

Testing qualitative research validity and reliability is a fairly new phenomenon; it was thought that analyzing the findings was not needed because this particular type of research deals with real-time (interviews or observations). However, it was discovered that researchers showed some form of bias in their studies. The belief is that the studies were bias because most researchers are looking for some form of funding. Therefore, many are now finding themselves having to prove their…

Validity is defined by the level of consistency that the results and the quality of the measure or the ability of a test produce comparable across repeated measures within the same testing parameters and/or conditions (Kaplan & Saccuzzo, 2013; Bordens & Abbott, 2014). In terms of verifying reliability, however, there are basically three different types of evidence that confirms the overall validity of a test: construct-related evidence, content-related evidence, and criterion-related evidence…

The concept of validity in research has been broadly used in academia and by researchers in different fields of study. The dictionary of social research methods compiled by Jupp (2006) defines validity as “the extent to which conclusions drawn from research provide an accurate description of what happened or a correct explanation of what happens and, why.” Similarly, Creswell (2014) described validity as a procedural benchmark for assessing the accuracy of an investigation and the conclusions…

(2016), the WJ III DRB test 's validity depends on two factors: 1) how closely its norming sample represents the population to which the test results will be compared, and 2) how carefully the data were gathered from that sample. However, diagnoses of ADHD using tests of cognitive ability, like the Woodcock-Johnson III, have primarily relied on mean differences between individuals with and without ADHD. Until the current investigation, only three discriminant validity studies had explored the…

Predictive validity is the ability to measure something to predict a specific variable in the future. For example, the SAT use predictive validity to predict how well a high school student will do in college. This related to the result of the written exam because predictive validity measures the connection between the score of a test and the target behavior. So if the test result of the written exam is high, the correlation between the score and the targeted behavior will have a high predictive…

The writing addresses concerns regarding the validity of the quest scale introduced by Batson and Ventis. Although this scale personally to me is not accurate. It provides a good input on the debate but there has been concerns regarding the reliability of the scale. As I finished my research on the validity of religion I decided to get one more viewpoint using ideology. Given that I have already used philosophy and sociology…