Compare and contrast these two models in terms of how they conceptualize validity.

 

For this discussion, describe one journal article’s findings on validity. In your post, synthesize the data and information and interpret it yourself based on the information you are learning about evidence for validity in this course.

  • The specific category of validity.
  • The author’s overall interpretation of the results.

You are not required to report the statistic, if any, reported in the journal article.

Be sure to include any difficulties you may be experiencing with searching for information in the peer-reviewed journal articles.

two approaches or models of validity—trinitarian and unitary. In some ways, these two models are competing views of gathering evidence for a test’s validity. In other ways, the two approaches have an overlap of elements.

For this discussion:

  • Compare and contrast these two models in terms of how they conceptualize validity.
  • Identify at least one advantage and disadvantage of each model.
  • Decide which model appears to be the most valid for determining validity of a test.
  • Explain your decision in terms of the implications for decision making about a test’s validity.

Be sure to include citations from Guion’s 1980 article, “On Trinitarian Doctrines of Validity,” and Messick’s 1995 article, “Validity of Psychological Assessment: Validation of Inferences From Persons’ Responses and Performances As Scientific Inquiry Into Score Meaning.”

 
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