Sean Coyle · 2024
Abstract Moreso and Ródenas’s essay provides some striking images of legal validity which raise some interesting questions. The main part of this response deals with some implications of their theory. I argue that legal validity is best viewed as a practice concerned with what might be called ‘unifying rules’: a complete expression of a rule which is formed from various antecedent (or, in Continental systems, posterior) fragments. In the common law system, the legal concept of ‘ownership’ famously consists of a number of rights which are in turn composed from numerous statutory rules and court rulings. But the same is true of virtually any rule: eg the neighbour principle. This essay considers the extent to which Moreso and Ródenas’s theory provides the basis for a general theory of validity of this kind. The shorter second part of the essay discusses Maris Köpcke’s recent and important theory of legal validity.
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Passmore, David · Figshare · 2019
Presentation in WF ED 540, Data Analysis in Workforce Education & Development, at Penn State during Fall Semester 2019
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Passmore, David · Figshare · 2019
Presentation in WF ED 540, Data Analysis in Workforce Education & Development, at Penn State during Fall Semester 2019
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Edwin A. Locke · Human Resource Management Review · 2011
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Danette McKinley · 2024
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James Algina, H. J. Keselman · Educational and Psychological Measurement · 2007
Applications of distribution theory for the squared multiple correlation coefficient and the squared cross-validation coefficient are reviewed, and computer programs for these applications are made available. The applications include confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and sample size selection.
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Xiang Li (114679), Zhaoyang Gao (18056414), Hong Liao (124443) · Figshare · 2024
<div><p>With the advancement of information technology and artificial intelligence, translation technologies have seen rapid development in language services and increasing integration in higher education. However, research on factors affecting students’ acceptance of these technologies remains limited. This study intends to formulate and test an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) incorporating computer self-efficacy and perceived enjoyment to investigate students’ adoption of translation technologies. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 370 college students in China experienced with using translation technologies. The results from the structural equation modeling demonstrated a positive prediction on perceived ease of use and enjoyment from computer self-efficacy. Perceived enjoyment increased perceived ease of use and attitudes. Perceived ease of use positively influenced perceived usefulness and attitudes. Finally, attitudes positively predicted greater behavioral intentions to use translation technologies. However, computer self-efficacy was identified to have no significant effect on perceived usefulness. The study makes significant theoretical contributions by expanding TAM and offering practical guidance to improve students’ acceptance of translation technologies in tertiary education.</p></div>
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Kenneth A. Bowen · 1979
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Jinfu Zhang · 2024
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G. E. Hughes, D. G. Londey · 2019
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Neil Andrews · Ius gentium · 2016
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Colin Cooper · 2018
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Klaus Krippendorff · The International Encyclopedia of Communication · 2008
In logic, validity is an attribute of the form of an argument that cannot lead from true premises to false conclusions. For example, “all A are B; some A are C; therefore some B are C” is a valid form. A common way to evaluate the validity of arguments is by treating it as a function of truth values – true or false – making sure that of all combinations of truth values, no false conclusions follow from true premises. In everyday life, the word “validity” is used similarly to “logic,” but more loosely and with qualifications. Near‐synonyms of validity are “soundness,” as in sound or unquestionable arguments; “plausibility,” as in conclusions that make sense and are accepted as most likely true; or “persuasiveness,” as in a convincing, believable, or credible account. Claims of validity are always built on a sense of authority, usually scientific, but also legal and popular. These synonyms can shift the burden of proof from the quality of arguments (soundness) to a community of reasonable people (persuasiveness), or to individual judgments (plausibility).
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Günter Figal, Ralf Dreier, Dirk-Martin Grube · Religion Past and Present · 2014
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Teresa Lynch · The International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods · 2017
Validity refers to two separate areas of concern in communication research. The first of those areas is the extent to which a measure reflects its intended concept. The term is distinct from reliability, although if a measure is valid this assumes that the measure is also reliable. Three established dimensions of validity exist: content , criterion , and construct validity . Statistical techniques such as confirmatory factor analysis and multitrait‐multimethod modeling can provide empirical evidence of validity. The second area in which scholars may consider issues related to validity is in experimental design. Experimental validity consists of two components, internal validity and external validity . Unlike measurement validity, experimental validity relies on logic, delineation, and establishment of cause‐and‐effect relationships.
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Narender KumarChadha · 2009
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David A. Rowe, Matthew T. Mahar · 2006
Validity is widely recognized as the most important concept in measurement. This is illustrated by the following statements describing validity from some of the leading authorities in measurement:“… the most fundamental consideration in developing and evaluating tests” (American Psychological Associ
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Micheline Chalhoub‐Deville, Barry O’Sullivan · University of Toronto Press eBooks · 2020
Validity: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments provides a historical overview of validity, targeting developments in both the UK and the US. It explores theoretical notions of validity as well as pragmatic validation practices and expands the arguments that need to be attended to document quality. The authors examine the need to consider, in addition to the psychometric evidence, which has continued to prevail especially in the US, other critical sources of quality evidence. They call attention to principled design and the evidence accumulated from various departments/groups involved in test design and development. They also promote the concept of impact by design, which places consequences at the top of the evidence chain to guide all testing efforts and quality documentation. They envision validity scholarship to attend to consequences at the individual, aggregate/group, and larger educational/organisational/societal levels. Concomitant with this attention to consequences are considerations of stakeholders and the tailoring of communication to engage intended groups. Such an approach yields a more convincing validity argument. The monograph ends by calling on professionals in the field to publish case studies which showcase localised validity arguments in practice. Local case studies represent critical endeavours to illustrate how evidence and arguments are pulled together to support the quality of a testing programme and all that it entails.
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Cecil R. Reynolds, Robert A. Altmann, Daniel N. Allen · 2021
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