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Validity is the only test criterion that applies to all five administrative uses of tests

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1921 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? A test must measure what it purports to measure to be employed profitably in any of the five uses (comparison, experimentation, classification, diagnosis and prognosis, definitive outline of goals). → Franzen 1921

Evidence

Franzen 1921

Franzen, R., & Knight, F. B. (1921). Criteria to Employ in Choice of Tests. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0075312

q2 · i? · theoretical · r2

Theoretical argument classifying administrators' needs into five heads (comparison, experimentation, classification, diagnosis and prognosis, definitive outline of goals) and arguing the validity criterion 'applies then to all the uses'. No empirical data are reported; support is the authors' analytical argument.

"A test must measure what it purports to measure to be employed profitably in any of these ways. Our first criterion applies then to all the uses."

Discussion

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Field Value
type claim
id validity-applies-to-all-five-test-uses
title Validity is the only test criterion that applies to all five administrative uses of tests
description Validity is the only test criterion that applies to all five administrative uses of tests
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1921
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-24
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sources 1 — franzen-1921

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