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Validity in Self Evaluation

Validity in Self Evaluation SISTER MARY AMATORA, O.S.F. Saint Francis College IT has become common practice among users of the various tests and scales in practically all areas, to look for reports of reliability and more specifically of the validity of the instru- ment contemplated for a specific purpose. Yet, at times users of such tests take at face value a reported figure, or index of such, without considering further possible factors involved nor the conditions and extenuating involvements which may differ in the case of the specific use to which they are to put the scale or test in question. Validity in self-rating is never easy to establish. Depending upon the trait, characteristic, attitude, or entity evaluated, the self-opinion or self-judgment may defy validation. Only in traits or items in which the self evaluation can be adequately substantiated by bona fide observation and/or recording of overt behavior, can one be assured of an adequate criterion against which he may attempt to validate the self-rating. Indeed, the literature of the past decade is replete with arti- cles on the computation and the interpretation of indexes of both reliability and validity. Clark and Smith (IO), in a vali- dation of the Bell Adjustment Inventory http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Educational and Psychological Measurement SAGE

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© 1956 SAGE Publications
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0013-1644
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10.1177/001316445601600110
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SISTER MARY AMATORA, O.S.F. Saint Francis College IT has become common practice among users of the various tests and scales in practically all areas, to look for reports of reliability and more specifically of the validity of the instru- ment contemplated for a specific purpose. Yet, at times users of such tests take at face value a reported figure, or index of such, without considering further possible factors involved nor the conditions and extenuating involvements which may differ in the case of the specific use to which they are to put the scale or test in question. Validity in self-rating is never easy to establish. Depending upon the trait, characteristic, attitude, or entity evaluated, the self-opinion or self-judgment may defy validation. Only in traits or items in which the self evaluation can be adequately substantiated by bona fide observation and/or recording of overt behavior, can one be assured of an adequate criterion against which he may attempt to validate the self-rating. Indeed, the literature of the past decade is replete with arti- cles on the computation and the interpretation of indexes of both reliability and validity. Clark and Smith (IO), in a vali- dation of the Bell Adjustment Inventory

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Published: Mar 1, 1956

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