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SUMMARY:Validity unpacked - Stuart Shaw\, CIE
DTSTART:20141126T103000Z
DTEND:20141126T123000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This training event is for anyone with a professional/academic
  interest in evaluating quality of educational assessments.\n\nThroughout 
 decades of debate within the educational and psychological measurement and
  assessment community\, validity has been consistently celebrated as the m
 ost important criterion for an assessment. Despite this\, the concept of v
 alidity has proved extremely resistant to precise definition. As a consequ
 ence\, validity remains one of the most controversial and debated topics i
 n the field of educational measurement.    \n\nThe workshop will begin by 
 tracing the evolution of validity from disparate and contested origins to 
 a point where there now appears to be a strong professional consensus over
  its meaning - reflected in the maxim ‘all validity is construct validit
 y’. Despite fairly general professional agreement over some of the funda
 mental tenets of validity there still remains considerable confusion over 
 the scope of the concept. Even the consensus over the construct validity m
 axim seems problematic when scrutinised carefully. Discontent with the bro
 ad perspective has been voiced by a number of notable validity theorists. 
 This training will provide opportunities to explore issues surrounding the
  current consensus\, the fragility of the consensus and other alternate\, 
 divergent conceptions of validity.\n\n"Read more and register to attend":h
 ttp://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/events/2014-validity-unpacked/
LOCATION:Hughes Hall\, Mortimer Road\, Cambridge\, UK
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