num_pages: 72
description: This guide explains how social scientists can evaluate the reliability and validity of empirical measurements, discussing the three basic types of validity: criterion related, content, and construct. In addition, the paper shows how reliability is assessed by the retest method, alternative-forms procedure, split-halves approach, and internal consistency method.
language: English
title: Reliability and Validity Assessment
titlecomplete: Reliability and Validity Assessment (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
genres: Read For School, Research Methods, Research, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 29
publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc