PEER ASSISTED STUDY SESSIONS
Facil: Sophia Mirzayee
Course: PSYC 1002
Email: sophia_mirzayee@carleton.ca
Office: ML 408
Week: 2
Office Hour: Thursdays 3:30-4:30pm
TYPES OF RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY
Instructions: Match the definitions/examples with the correct type of reliability or validity. Each
term is intended to be used only once.
Reliability and Validity Concepts
___1. Test-retest reliability
___2. Reliability
___3. Validity
___4. Construct validity
___5. Criterion validity
____6. Face validity
____7. Predictive validity
____8. Inter-rater reliability
____9. Content validity
Definitions and Examples
A. The Life Satisfaction Scale looks like it measures what it purports to.
B. A class takes a biology test and then they take it again two weeks later so the instructor can
assess ___________.
C. The degree to which a test predicts another variable it should predict, such as the Graduate
Record Exam (GRE) score predicting success in a higher education doctoral program.
D. The degree to which two or more observers agree about an event, such as whether Shakira,
Blake, Usher, and/or Adam turn their chairs for a participant.
E. If a depression scale truly reflects depression, it has good (specific type of validity) _______.
F. Consistency across repeated measurement.
G. The degree to which a scale/test actually measures what it intends to.
H. The degree to which two measures that reflect the same concept are correlated, such as if MCCC
creates its own reading placement test and correlates scores with scores from the same students’
COMPASS reading placement.
DISCLAIMER: PASS worksheets are designed as a study aid for use in PASS workshops only. Worksheets may
contain errors, intentional or otherwise. It is up to the student to verify the information contained within.
PEER ASSISTED STUDY SESSIONS
Facil: Sophia Mirzayee
Email: sophia_mirzayee@carleton.ca
Course: PSYC 1002
Office: ML 408
Week: 2
Office Hour: Thursdays 3:30-4:30pm
I. If the Psychology GRE specifically samples from all the various areas of psychology, such as
cognitive, learning, social, perception, clinical, etc., it likely has good ____________.
Taking a closer look
What are generally some concrete examples of reliable measures?
1)______________________
this is a good example because:
2) _________________________
this is a good example because:
what is an example of a measure that may not be reliable?
_________________________
This may not be reliable because:
Important Facts and figures.
Students will each be assigned one of the following. Identify what it is and its importance. Then, we
will pair up and share!
The Mozart Effect
Albert Binet
Galton
IQ
Spearman (g)
Cultural differences/cultural bias
emotional intelligence
DISCLAIMER: PASS worksheets are designed as a study aid for use in PASS workshops only. Worksheets may
contain errors, intentional or otherwise. It is up to the student to verify the information contained within.