Construct validity

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

Reliability of a test as a questionnaire means that the questionnaire is measuring something in a reproducible way. Validity on the other hand means that the questionnaire is measuring what is intended to. In situations where other scales of the same or similar attributes are available, outcomes of an existing scale and the new one administered to a sample of people may be compared with their correlation indicating the validity of the new scale. However, if no other measure pre-exists, another approach is necessary called ´construct validity´.(1) read more

Linguistic validity

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

Linguistic validity means that different language versions of an instrument such as a questionnaire are conceptually equivalent in each of the target countries. (1-3) Such questionnaires should be understood and practically performed in the same way. Linguistic and cross-cultural aspects must be taken into account as well the concept related to the questionnaire involved. Linguistic validity can be reached by means of a forward-backward translation procedure. read more