The meaning of validity.
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Reproducibility of Results↗
Biomedical subjects
Laura D Goodwin
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Changing conceptions of measurement validity: an update on the new standards.
This article serves as a follow up to a 1997 article in the Journal of Nursing Education, in which the author presented a historical overview of the ways in which views of measurement validity had changed during the past half century. The new American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, released in 1999, includes a revised conceptualization of validity. The key changes, including the elimination of the old "trinity" view of validity and the operationalization of validity as five types of evidence, are described in this article, and specific ways to obtain evidence of each type are provided. The article concludes with a brief discussion of some of the major continuing issues and challenges in validity theory and practice.
Data Interpretation, Statistical↗
Using multiple data sources for curriculum revision.
Traditionally, curriculum revisions have been made based primarily on guidelines and standards set forth by professional organizations that identify a core of knowledge that pediatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) must know regardless of their practice setting. However, the number and complexity of pediatric health conditions managed by PNPs have expanded beyond this core knowledge. To meet the PNP's changing role and employment needs, curriculum revisions based on the information gathered from surveys of alumni, employers, and a national survey of PNP graduates, as well as on traditional standards and guidelines, were made.
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