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Short form content validity

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.

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Short-Form Content Validity
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / psychometrics
  • Smith, G. T., McCarthy, D. M., & Anderson, K. G. (2000). On the sins of short-form development. Psychological Assessment, 12(1), 102–111. · DOI 10.1037/1040-3590.12.1.102
  • Messick, S. (1995). Validity of psychological assessment: Validation of inferences from persons' responses and performances as scientific inquiry into score meaning. American Psychologist, 50(9), 741–749. · DOI 10.1037/0003-066X.50.9.741
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Related methods

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Taxonomic bucketConstruct Validitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketContent Validitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketConvergent Validitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketDiscriminant Validitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketShort-form item analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketShort-Form Scale Developmentmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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