Concept information
Preferred term
consequential validity
Definition
- Consequential validity emerged from concerns related to societal ramifications of assessments. The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing(American Educational Research Association, 1999) views validity as a unitary concept that measures the degree to which all the accumulated evidence supports the intended interpretation of test scores for the proposed purpose. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods; Consequential Validity]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/consequential_validity
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