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Issues in Psychological Testing

or aid in the understanding and prediction of behavior" (Kaplan and Saccuzzo, 2008, p. 6). A spelling test, for instance, offers a...

Validity and Reliablity of Tests

that a test of some sort actually measures what it purports to measure. Tests of any kind must have both reliability and validity....

Reliability and Validity in Research

the recession it is important to look at the shopping process and how customers patterns of purchases are taking place and changi...

Issues in Students Research

on every 5th page, starting at page 40 of the book, this took away any potential for the researcher to try and use personal judgem...

WISC IV

The WISC was first released in 1949 as a downward extension of the adult IQ test. Wechsler revised it in 1974 and it has been revi...

Investigating Cyber Bullying Using The Internet

This essay pertains to critiquing three Internet sources, a blog, a video and a podcast, as to their validity and applicability to...

Stanford Achievement Test, A Review

This critique focuses on the Stanford Achievement Test cites research in order to describe the validity and reliability of this as...

MMPI Introduction

This essay discusses the MMPI, the Multiphasic Personality Inventory, including a description of the subscales and validity compon...

Sampling Procedures

This essay discusses several topics that relate to research. The first explains what reliability and validity mean. The writer com...

The Interview Process and Organizational Fit

scored" (Palacios, Newberry, & Bootzin 1966). As this point in time, it was found that if one treated the interview as a means to ...

Employee Assessment

this paper properly! 1. Types of Workplace Psychological Tests There are many different types of psychological tests that can b...

Parkinsons and the Media

Changes of emotional prosody in Parkinsons disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 289(1), 32-35. Sollinger, A., Goldstein...

The SBQ-R and its Validity

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the SBQ-R psychological test. Drawing upon a review of literature, the validity of ...

Appling Reliability and Validity Concepts to Qualitative Research

The writer examines whether or not the concepts of reliability and validity are suitable when applied to qualitative research meth...

Criticism of the Financial Accounting Framework Reform

The writer reviews the content and approach of a letter written by Rick Gore concerning The Conceptual Framework for Financial Rep...

Forensic Science and the Question of Validity

way to widespread use of valid science within the criminal justice system; however, the NAS report indicates that this has failed ...

Analysis of a Clinical Study

responses to identified trends and patterns. The sampling plan involved studying mother and fathers with infants weighing "less ...

An Argument Against Zero Tolerance

The concept of zero tolerance is becoming more and more...

What do Valid and Reliable Mean

consideration. Researchers will use repeat sample groups to reduce the possibility of an abnormal group skewing the results. If ...

What Threatens Research Validity

they truly representative of the population being studied? Experimental mortality is another threat and addresses how many partici...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

Darwin On Trial by Philip Johnson

sudden creation, rather than creation by progressive development" (Johnson 22). In this introductory chapter, Johnson presents a...

Psychological Tests - Their Validity and Usage

the MMPI uses this scale, an individuals responses are judged across five key dimensions that correspond to aspects of personality...

The Supreme Court Justice Nominee Review Process

It is not unusual for prospective candidates for Supreme Court Justice to be subjected to considerable criticism during the screen...

Assessment Center Validity/Gaugler, et al.(1987)

This paper pertains to a study conducted by Gaugler and colleagues (1987), which provides a meta-anaysis of research that evaluate...

Scientific Tests Demonstrate the Validity of Global Warming

This paper argues that it reasonable to conclude that government agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (N...

Review of WOMAC Study

a measure of internal consistency. Items in an instrument are considered to have internal consistency, that is, similar constructs...

Study Critique/Coetzee (2004)

be discussed relative to both previous research and the studies that have come after it. This research tends to substantiate the s...

Articles from Liberal Perspectives

"veil of ignorance" so that they are unaware of such things as their social status, friends and family, health, politics, height, ...

Shifting Newtonian Paradigms

of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices can lead to "overwhelmi...