Validity Considerations in Designing an Oral Test

Test validity and performance validity: considerations in providing a framework for development of an ability-focused neuropsychological test battery.

Literature on test validity and performance validity is reviewed to propose a framework for specification of an ability-focused battery (AFB). Factor analysis supports six domains of ability: first, verbal symbolic; secondly, visuoperceptual and visuospatial judgment and problem solving; thirdly, sensorimotor skills; fourthly, attention/working memory; fifthly, processing speed; finally, learni...

Ecological validity of the five digit test and the oral trails test.

Tests evaluating the attentional-executive system are widely used in clinical practice. However, proximity of an objective cognitive test with real-world situations (ecological validity) is not frequently investigated. The present study evaluate the association between measures of the Five Digit Test (FDT) and the Oral Trails Test (OTT) with self-reported cognitive failures in everyday life as ...

Establishing an Argument-Based Validity Approach for a Low-Stake Test of Collocational Behavior

Most of the validation studies conducted across varying test application contexts are usually framed within the traditional conceptualization of validity and therefore lack a comprehensive framework to focus on test score interpretations and test score use. This study aimed at developing and validating a collocational behavior test (CBT), drawing on Kane's argument-based approach to validity. F...

validity evidences in test development : an applied perspective

The purpose of this instrumental study was to show how to conduct a study aimed at obtaining content validity evidence in the test construction/adaptation process. An applied perspective was used, and this paper presents the content validity analysis of the Spanish adaptation of the State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory trait form (STCI-T). This paper illustrates the stages required to analyze con...

Evaluating Test Validity