This demonstrates two dimensions of content for the way we talk: Accents or different ways to say the same word, as well as different words to say the same thing.Ĭriterion Related Validity: Did the quiz successfully guess where your student is from?įace validity: This test is very high in face validity. So, it was actually a fine "getting to know you" exercise for the first week of the semester.Įducational benefit: Use it to illustrate the 90 million different kinds of validity and reliability:Ĭontent Validity: The test studied both pronunciations as well as different regional terms for the same thing (Water bubbler? Really, Wisconsin?). Which entailed talking about where they grew up, where their parents grew up, where they spent that summer, etc. Before class started that day, I could hear them discussing their results. I asked my students to take the quiz before learning about validity in my I/O class. How to use in class: Ask every student to take this quiz and reflect on the validity and reliability of the scale and use it as an example to explain validity and reliability. As this test indeed picked up on where I've lived and talked, I would say that this is a valid test based just on my usage. Indeed, I spent elementary school in Northern Virginia, my adolescence in rural Central PA, college at PSU, and I now live in the far NW corner of PA.
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