What’s on the Validity poster
A 5-row table: Type · The question it asks.
Validity belongs to the interpretation, not to the paper.
- Construct — Does it measure the intended trait?
- Content — Does it sample the domain fairly?
- Criterion — Does it predict a relevant outcome?
- Face — Does it look appropriate?
- Consequential — Are the effects of its use acceptable?
Educational reference. Face validity is the weakest form and the most persuasive to non-specialists. Construct validity does the real work.
Questions about the Validity poster
- What’s on the Validity poster?
- A 5-row table: Type · The question it asks. Validity belongs to the interpretation, not to the paper. Construct — Does it measure the intended trait?; Content — Does it sample the domain fairly?; Criterion — Does it predict a relevant outcome?; Face — Does it look appropriate?; Consequential — Are the effects of its use acceptable?. Educational reference. Face validity is the weakest form and the most persuasive to non-specialists. Construct validity does the real work.
- Who is the Validity poster for?
- Validity belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning assessment can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Validity poster?
- Ask it of every test you set, buy or are judged by. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Validity belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Validity?
- Blueprinting A Test, Comparative Judgement and Feedback That Works sit alongside Validity in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Blueprinting A TestComparative JudgementFeedback That Works
- Is the Validity poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Validity downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Validity poster print at?
- Validity is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Validity loses nothing.Printing guide
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