Methoden vergleichen

	Inhaltsvalidität von Kurzformen	Kurzform-Itemanalyse
Fachgebiet	Psychometrie	Psychometrie
Familie	Latent structure	Latent structure
Entstehungsjahr	1995–2000	1990s–2000s
Urheber	Messick (validity framework); Smith et al. (short-form standards)	Psychometric tradition; methodological articulation by Smith, McCarthy & Anderson (2000)
Typ	Validity evaluation	Item selection and evaluation procedure
Wegweisende Quelle	Smith, G. T., McCarthy, D. M., & Anderson, K. G. (2000). On the sins of short-form development. Psychological Assessment, 12(1), 102–111.	Smith, G. T., McCarthy, D. M., & Anderson, K. G. (2000). On the sins of short-form development. Psychological Assessment, 12(1), 102–111.
Aliasnamen	abbreviated scale content validity, short-scale content coverage, brief form content validity, content validity for short forms	abbreviated scale item analysis, short-scale item evaluation, item screening for short forms, SFIA
Verwandt	6	4
Zusammenfassung	Short-form content validity evaluates whether items retained in an abbreviated scale still adequately represent every substantive facet of the construct measured by the original full-length instrument. It ensures that shortening a scale does not hollow out the conceptual domain it was designed to cover.	Short-form item analysis is the systematic psychometric evaluation and selection of items when constructing an abbreviated version of a longer measurement instrument. It applies classical and modern item-analysis criteria — item-total correlations, reliability estimates, and factor structure — to identify the smallest item subset that preserves the original scale's psychometric integrity.