16 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Melanie Hawkins, Gerald R. Elsworth, Richard H. Osborne
Background Data from subjective patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are now being used in the health sector to make or support decisions about individuals, groups and populations. Contemporary validity theorists define validity not as a statistical property of the test but as the extent to which empirical…
David A. Cook, Rose Hatala
Background Simulation plays a vital role in health professions assessment. This review provides a primer on assessment validation for educators and education researchers. We focus on simulation-based assessment of health professionals, but the principles apply broadly to other assessment approaches and topics. Key…
Benjamin Kinnear, Christina St-Onge, Daniel J. Schumacher, Mélanie Marceau + 1 more
'Mélanie Marceau' 'Thirusha Naidu'] Validity has long held a venerated place in education, leading some authors to refer to it as the “sine qua non” or “cardinal virtue” of assessment. And yet, validity has not held a fixed meaning; rather it has shifted in its definition and scope over time. In this Eye Opener, the…
Jinsong Chen
Test validity lies at the core of educational and psychological testing, but there are controversies about what test validity is and how test validation should proceed. This paper develops a taxonomy to redefine test validity with hierarchical levels. On the basis of testing foundation, the hierarchy includes…
Raheleh Khorsan, Cindy Crawford
Background. Evidence rankings do not consider equally internal (IV), external (EV), and model validity (MV) for clinical studies including complementary and alternative medicine/integrative medicine (CAM/IM) research. This paper describe this model and offers an EV assessment tool (EVAT(c)) for weighing studies…
Zarrin Seema Siddiqui
A defensible assessment is the cornerstone of health professions education and requires a careful approach from all the stakeholders involved in designing and delivering the curriculum. In this article, a framework is described using four essential attributes that define an effective assessment. These attributes…
Melanie Hawkins, Gerald R. Elsworth, Sandra Nolte, Richard H. Osborne
'Richard H. Osborne'] Background Contrary to common usage in the health sciences, the term “valid” refers not to the properties of a measurement instrument but to the extent to which data-derived inferences are appropriate, meaningful, and useful for intended decision making. The aim of this study was to determine how…
Lluna Maria Bru-Luna, Manuel Martí-Vilar, César Merino-Soto, José Livia-Segovia + 2 more
'José Livia-Segovia' 'Juan Garduño-Espinosa' 'Filiberto Toledano-Toledano'] Background The person-centered care (PCC) approach plays a fundamental role in ensuring quality healthcare. The Person-Centered Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT) is one of the shortest and simplest tools currently available for measuring PCC. The…
Josh Joseph Ramminger, Niklas Jacobs
Several conceptions of validity have emphasized the contingency of validity on theory. Here we revisit several contributions to the discourse on the concept of validity, which we consider particularly influential or insightful. Despite differences in metatheory, both Cronbach and Meehl’s construct validity, and…
Guus ten Broeke, Hilde Tobi
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) is an interdisciplinary and dynamic modelling approach for the study of today’s global challenges. It is used for the explanation, description, and prediction of behaviours of system components and the system at large. To understand and assess the quality of research in which CAS models…
Benjamin Kinnear, Daniel J. Schumacher, Lara Varpio, Erik W. Driessen + 1 more
Introduction: Validity is frequently conceptualized in health professions education (HPE) assessment as an argument that supports the interpretation and uses of data. However, previous work has shown that many validity scholars believe argument and argumentation are relatively lacking in HPE. To better understand HPE’s…
Roy Eagleson, Leo Joskowicz, Nassir Navab, Philipp Fürnstahl + 3 more
'Mazda Farshad' 'Hooman Esfandiari' 'Matthias Seibold'] This paper presents a discussion about the fundamental principles of Analysis of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Systems for Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Interventions. The three key concepts of Analysis (Verification, Evaluation, and Validation)…
Rickey E Carter
Background In 2003, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a guidance document on the scope of "Part 11" enforcement. In this guidance document, the FDA indicates an expectation of a risk-based approach to determining which systems should undergo validation. Since statistical programs manage and…
Andreas G. Wertgen, Tobias Richter
Validation of text information as a general mechanism for detecting inconsistent or false information is an integral part of text comprehension. This study examined how the credibility of the information source affects validation processes. Two experiments investigated combined effects of source credibility and…
Christoph Czepa, Amirali Amiri, Evangelos Ntentos, Uwe Zdun
Mature verification and monitoring approaches, such as complex event processing and model checking, can be applied for checking compliance specifications at design time and runtime. Little is known about the understandability of the different formal and technical languages associated with these approaches. This…
Soo Hyun Ryu, Wonsuk Yang, Jong C. Park
Formalization of the semantics of generics has been considered extremely challenging for their inherent vagueness and context-dependence that hinder a single fixed truth condition. The present study suggests a way to formalize the semantics of generics by constructing flexible acceptance conditions with comparative…