Concurrent validity
Question 1
A researcher at a school of nursing decides to investigate the correlation between a pre- admission HESI examination, high school GPA, and SAT scores as a predictor of success in completing first year study. These admission variables will be reviewed again with grades achieved after the first year is completed. This use of data is known as which of the following?
Known-groups technique
Concurrent validity
Predictive validity
Construct validation
Question 2
Which aspect of reliability does the “Cronbach’s alpha” indicate?
Internal consistency of the measure items within one measure
Equivalence of two separate forms of a measure
The extent of expert agreement ensuring adequate content coverage
Measurement stability performance over time
