Validity and Reliability Matrix
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Validity and Reliability Matrix
For each of the tests of reliability and validity listed on the matrix, prepare a 50-100-word description of test’s application and under what conditions these types of reliability would be used as well as when it would be inappropriate. Then prepare a 50-100-word description of each test’s strengths and a 50-100-word description of each test’s weaknesses.
|TEST OF RELIABILITY |APPLICATION AND APPROPRIATENESS |STRENGTHS |WEAKNESSES |
|Internal Consistency |This method determines the consistency of items that compose |The strength would be in comparing the responses from the |All items would need to be of the same design or construct to|
| |a particular test. In order to gauge the reliability of the |participants to look for the consistency. It would be using |eliminate variables. This is fairly easy to develop in some |
| |test, one needs to use an evaluation that measures only one |the same items for comparison so the responses should all |tests, such as a math test, but much more difficult for more |
| |item or area. An evaluation would be administered to a group|fall within an expected range. It would eliminate certain |complex or subjective measurements. |
| |of people at one time. The administrator would then examine |variables in other forms of comparison. | |
| |the responses to see if the items, which would all be of the | |(http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/reltypes.php) |
| |same design or construct, yielded the same
Validity and Reliability Matrix
For each of the tests of reliability and validity listed on the matrix, prepare a 50-100-word description of test’s application and under what conditions these types of reliability would be used as well as when it would be inappropriate. Then prepare a 50-100-word description of each test’s strengths and a 50-100-word description of each test’s weaknesses.
|TEST OF RELIABILITY |APPLICATION AND APPROPRIATENESS |STRENGTHS |WEAKNESSES |
|Internal Consistency |This method determines the consistency of items that compose |The strength would be in comparing the responses from the |All items would need to be of the same design or construct to|
| |a particular test. In order to gauge the reliability of the |participants to look for the consistency. It would be using |eliminate variables. This is fairly easy to develop in some |
| |test, one needs to use an evaluation that measures only one |the same items for comparison so the responses should all |tests, such as a math test, but much more difficult for more |
| |item or area. An evaluation would be administered to a group|fall within an expected range. It would eliminate certain |complex or subjective measurements. |
| |of people at one time. The administrator would then examine |variables in other forms of comparison. | |
| |the responses to see if the items, which would all be of the | |(http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/reltypes.php) |
| |same design or construct, yielded the same
References: Types of Reliability, retrieve on 7/1/2001 from http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/reltypes.php Validity, retrieve on 7/1/2011 from (http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/research/relval/com2b5.cfm)