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NOTE: PAGE NO LONGER BEING UPDATED AS OF JUNE 2007

RESEARCH METHODS RESOURCES ON THE WWW

 


MEASUREMENT, VALIDITY & RELIABILITY



 

MEASUREMENT

Deciding Where to Measure, by John FitzGerald

Data and the Nature of Measurement, by Mike Raulin [PowerPoint presentation]

Level of Measurement Module

Levels of Measurement

Measurement - 1

Measurement - 2

Measurement, by William M.K. Trochim [module in online book]

Process for Developing Valid and Reliable Measurements

Simple Data Measurement: A Workbook, by Alison Galloway

Variables and Category Systems, By Susan Carol Losh

 


RELIABILITY & VALIDITY


Campbell & Stanley: Threats to Internal and External Validity

Controls to Reduce Threats to Validity, by Mike Raulin [PowerPoint presentation]

Estimating the Impact of Survey Errors on Survey Estimates, by Johanna Laiho

Experimental Design: Internal Validity

Handling Data: An Introductory Paper by Keith Morrison

Hypothesis Testing, Validity, and Threats to Validity, by Mike Raulin [PowerPoint presentation]

Internal and External Validity: General Issues, by W. Huitt and others

Validity and Reliability in Qualitative Research  by Donald Ratcliff

Validity, Reliability, & Objectivity

Internal Validity, by Phil Ender

 

 

 
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These pages were originally created for the course ARST/LIBR 590: Research Methods in Libraries & Archives. As I am no longer teaching that course I have stopped updating the pages as of June 2007.

Last updated August 8, 2004

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