ASSESSING

• WHAT IS VALIDITY?

  extent to which procedures, research tools and findings measure what they intend to measure
• WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES OF VALIDITY?

  internal and external
• INTERNAL VALIDITY?

  extent to which factors inside the investigation measure what they intend to measure
• EXTERNAL VALIDITY?

  extent to which results of the investigation measure the behaviour outside the experimental setting
• TYPES OF INTERNAL VALIDITY?

  face and concurrent
• FACE VALIDITY?

  extent to which a research tool is subjectively viewed as measuring what it intends to measure
• CONCURRENT VALIDITY?

  extent to which the results of a questionnaire correspond to a previously established questionnaire
• TWO TYPES OF EXTERNAL VALIDITY?

  ecological and temporal
• ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY?

  extent to which findings of a research study are able to be generalised to real-life settings
• TEMPORAL VALIDITY?

  extent to which findings of a research study are able to be generalised to different time periods