Answer the following questions:
• How do validity and reliability help us to ascertain the quality of a piece of research?
• When presented with a set of student assessment data from standardized testing, what criteria would you be looking for to ascertain the qualities of validity and reliability of the data?
• What is most important, the validity or the reliability of an assessment in your daily practice?
Support your statements with evidence from the required studies and your research.
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Validity as it relates to empirical research and inquiry is a system of checks and balances to make certain that the tools and methods utilized to gather data measuring what it says that it is measuring. If the tools and measures utilized in the research process measure what it says it measures then the data ...
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