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Moss, Pamela A. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2004
The concern behind my question, "Can there be validity without reliability?" (Moss, 1994), was about the influence of measurement practices on the quality of education. I argued that conventional operationalizations of reliability in the measurement literature, which I summarized as "consistency, quantitatively defined, among independent…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measurement Techniques, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Moss, Pamela A.; Girard, Brian J.; Haniford, Laura C. – Review of Research in Education, 2006
In this chapter, the authors review three distinct theoretical discourses--educational measurement, hermeneutics, and sociocultural studies--to support the development of validity theory for the routine use of assessment by professionals working in complex, dynamic, and always partially unique educational environments. They review validity…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Measurement Techniques
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Moss, Pamela A. – Educational Researcher, 1994
The assumption that reliability is a necessary but insufficient condition for validity in assessment is challenged by exploring a dialectic between psychometric and hermeneutic approaches to drawing and warranting interpretations of human products of performance. Hermeneutic alternatives for epistemological and ethical purposes expand the range of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Epistemology, Ethics