Saturday, November 14, 2015

3.4 External and internal validity

3.4 External and internal Validity  
The two major forms of validity are the external and internal validity. The external validity of research findings is the data’s ability to be generalized across persons, settings, and times  
The Internal validity is about the ability of the research instrument to measure what it is purported to measure. It answers the question “does the instrument really measure what its designer claims it does?".  It consists of the following major forms: content validity, criterion-related validity, and construct validity, among others.


Discuss the methods that you could use to measure the different types of internal validity of a data collection instrument?    

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