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Validity in Psychological Tests

In everyday language, the term validity is typically used to describe something as being trustworthy or legit. It's meaning in psychology suggests something similar—it's all about whether we can trust ...
JSTOR Daily

Beyond Validity and Reliability: Some Further Concepts and Coefficients for Evaluating Tests

The Journal of Experimental Education publishes basic and applied-research studies that use the range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies found in the behavioral, cognitive, and social ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

The Challenges With Ensuring the Validity and Utility of Diagnostic Tests

Precision medicine has touched every aspect of healthcare today, and—as is evident from President Obama’s State of the Union speech for 2015—is front of mind with the federal government, which ...
BMJ

Reliability and validity of three pain provocation tests used for the diagnosis of chronic proximal hamstring tendinopathy

4 Department of Physiotherapy, Centro “Riabilita”, Civitanova Marche (MC), Italy 5 Department of Physiotherapy Centro “Lovanium”, Pesaro, Italy 6 Department of Physiotherapy Centro “FKT Filanda”, ...
BMJ

Reliability of specific physical examination tests for the diagnosis of shoulder pathologies: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Correspondence to Professor Christian Kopkow, Department für Angewandte Gesundheitswissenschaften, Hochschule für Gesundheit (University of Applied Sciences), Gesundheitscampus 6–8, Bochum 44801, ...