NURS5012 - Assessment and Clinical Judgement - Optional worksheet pre-Assessment 1

Learning Activity 2 - Validity

Validity refers to the extent to which an assessment tool accurately reflects the concept it is claiming to measure Internal Validity is the extent to which you can claim your assessment result is absolutely caused by the phenomena you are measuring. (Gillespie & Chaboyer, 2016; Heale & Twycross, 2015; Research, 2012)

2. Define the following concepts and describe their use in measuring or describing the validity of an assessment tool
a. content validity

b. Construct Validity
i. convergent validity.
ii. divergent (also known as discriminant validity)

c. criterion-related validity
i. concurrent validity
ii. predictive validity