validity coefficient

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validity
noun[U]
uk
/vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/us
/vəˈlɪd.ə.t̬i/
the quality of being based on truth or reason, or of being able to ...
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coefficient
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/us
/ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/
a value, in mathematics, that appears in front of and multiplies ...
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That is, if avaliditycoefficientsuch as the correlation between a target test and another test is high, reliability must be at least as high as thevaliditycoefficient.
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Secondly, eachvaliditycoefficientshould be larger than all different-trait, different-method coefficients in the same row or column; among such comparisons, 314 of 364 (86.3 per cent) meet this test.
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Thirdly, eachvaliditycoefficientshould be larger than the different-trait, same method coefficients involving the same variable; 272 of 364 comparisons (74.7 per cent) meet this test.
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The resulting correlation would be a concurrentvaliditycoefficient.
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One way to interpret avaliditycoefficientis to square it to obtain the variance accounted by the test.
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For example, avaliditycoefficientof.30 corresponds to 9 percent of variance explained.
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The correlation between test scores and a measure of some criterion is called the "validitycoefficient".
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Under this definition, one can show that reliability of the test and the criterion places an upper limit on the possible correlation between them (the so-calledvaliditycoefficient).
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Validity coefficients are provided separately for both the alcoholic men and their wives.
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In this matrix, seven of the fourteen coefficients are significant at the 0.05 level; thirteen of the fourteen validity coefficients have the correct sign.
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First, the validity coefficients (different measures of the same variable) should be significantly greater than zero.
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While inductive methods select items based upon factor loadings, empirical items are selected based upon validity coefficients and their ability to accurately predict group membership.
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