The trainees presented a retrospective reconstruction of their thinking as a rather rational process of testing plausible hypotheses, with little attention for the role of associative reasoning.
While health education research tends to define older adults as a homogenous group [ 17], the process of testing these PILs demonstrated the variability in this age group.
However, as noted in the introduction, validation should be regarded as a process of iterative hypothesis testing rather than something with a fixed end point (Streiner and Norman, 2008).
As they announced last week, Twitter is in the process of testing their new Streaming API with a feature called User Streams.
As usual, this seems part of the process of testing the waters — and Dropbox may inevitably end up pulling out of the process or going in a different direction.
Ideally, science is the systematic process of testing multiple hypotheses, but as practiced by real people, it is also distinctly social.
It can consequently be deployed in remote, inaccessible areas to collect sediment generated through hillslope erosion processes as a means of testing predictions of erosion.
Validity evidence in the study was based on the newest consensus standards that describe validation as a process of accumulating evidence of validity of test scores obtained under certain conditions and for a particular purpose [ 17].
Validation is a process of iterative hypothesis testing; as more is learnt about the construct putatively underlying the measurement scheme, new predictions can be generated and tested against further observation (Streiner and Norman, 2008).
We asked the respondents to relate their experience of being tested in a chronological order; how they came to have the test, why they decided to have it, how they learnt the results and reacted to them, what they did with the information afterwards, and what they thought of the process of testing as a whole.
