Reliability and Validity: an Introduction

University College London

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In London

£ 150 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    5h

  • Duration

    1 Day

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This one-day course offers an introduction to the principles, methods of assessment, and appropriateness of statistical analyses for different types of measurement validity and reliability.
Particular focus is given to statistical assessment of reliability over time, context and rater.
This course is delivered by UCL's Centre for Applied Statistics Courses (CASC) - part of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH).

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London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

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About this course

By the end of the course you should be able to:
understand the importance of validity and reliability assessment and the link between the two
understand and differentiate validity types and the relevance of statistical analysis for each type
understand and differentiate key types of reliability
select appropriate methods for reliability analyses based on data type and study design
understand the basic principles and calculations behind common tests of reliability

You can request a certificate of attendance for this course once you've completed it.

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Subjects

  • Associated
  • Reliability and Validity
  • Reliability
  • Validity
  • Methods of Assessment
  • Appropriateness
  • Statistical analyses
  • Measurement validity
  • Types of validity
  • Kappa
  • Correlation

Course programme

Understanding and assessing reliability and validity are important when developing and using new tests and measurement tools.

This course will introduce you to to the concepts of reliability and validity, how the two are associated, and the methods commonly used for assessing these factors in different data types and study designs.

The following topics will be covered:

  • Types of validity
  • Assessing validity of numeric and categorical outcomes
  • Types of reliability
  • Assessing reliability for numeric outcomes
  • Bland-Altman limits of agreement
  • Intraclass correlation
  • Assessing reliability for categorical outcomes
  • Kappa
  • Internal reliability of assessment measures
  • Correlation

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