Frontiers of Test Validity Theory

Contents

About the Authors

Preface

Acknowledgements

1  Introduction: Surveying the Field of Test Validity Theory

1.1.  Terminology

1.2.  The Development of Test Validity Theory

1.3.  Measurement, Causation, Meaning, and Test Validity

1.4.  Further Reading

PART  I:

2   Philosophical Theories of Measurement

2.1.  The Classical Theory of Measurement

2.2.  Addition and Concatenation

2.3.  The Representational Theory of Measurement: Stevens’ Version

2.4.  The Representational Theory of Measurement: The Axiomatic Approach

2.5.  The Latent Variable Perspective

2.6.  Chapter Conclusion

2.7.  Further Reading

3  Psychometric Models

3.1.  Psychometric Models

3.2.  Test Scores, Constructs, and Validity

3.3.  The Relation Between Validity and Other Psychometric ...