What Was Cronbach's (1989) Advice About Construct Validation

question 17

Multiple Choice

What was Cronbach's (1989) advice about construct validation?

• A) Validation is a risky process likely to bring the young researcher to ruin.
• B) Construct validity is vastly more important than any of the other validities.
• C) Validation is a lengthy, even endless process.
• D) The test user who spurns validation cannot make valid decisions.

---

Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; how spread out numbers are around the mean.

Median

The middle value of a data set, which divides the set into two equal halves when arranged in ascending or descending order.

Pth Percentile

A value on a rank-ordered dataset below which a certain percentage (P) of observations fall.

Observations

Data collected during an experiment or research, representing the values or attributes of variables of interest.