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On Validity: Are the Scores Relevant?

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Imagine you have a dart game with a friend. You throw three times and the darts land on practically the same spot. Your friend’s three darts land on three different places. Thus, you have almost perfect reliability and your friend has no reliability at all.

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  • Alade, O. M., & Omoruyi, I. V. (2014). Table of specification and its relevance in educational development assessment, Table III. European Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 2(1), 1–17.

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Soh, K. (2016). On Validity: Are the Scores Relevant?. In: Understanding Test and Exam Results Statistically. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1581-6_15

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