Exam 9: Validity, Reliability, and Triangulated Strategies

The test-retest method is the most widely used means of establishing the reliability of attitude scales.

Which of the following is not a means of attempting to demonstrate scale reliability?

Nominal level data represent the simplest level of measure ment that a variable can assume.

The multiple forms method involves the administration of alternate forms of the instrument to the same group.

Discuss the principal features of the ADAM program.What is its major benefit to criminal justice research?

"Different measures should yield the same result" is a description of:

Concept validity is another name for:

The greater the number of diverse, converging measures on a phenomenon the greater the confidence in the validity of the measure.

In nominal level measurement the actual numbers assigned to categories have no mathematical meaning.

Although desirable, pretests of instruments are not really essential in research.

The test-retest procedure assures the validity of measurement.

_________________ validity asks whether the measuring instrument works in predicting present characteristics.

The primary means of validation in the DUF program is:

Much professional prestige is attached to research involving replication in criminal justice.

A type of validation procedure which concludes, "It appears as if I am measuring the phenomenon correctly," is a description of what type of validity?

In the ADAM program the data is used only for research pur poses and anonymity is assured.

_________________ validity asks, "Does the measuring instrument appear, at face value, to be measuring what I am attempting to measure?"

Discuss the three primary methods of attempting to demonstrate reliability.

The stable and consistent replication of findings under repeated measurement is called:

Pragmatic validity is more of a logical, theoretical pro cedure rather than an empirical one.