Moreover, we argue that the face validity of assessments is important in ensuring students' engagement with the learning tasks and assessment activities and may contribute to the broader validity of the assessment enterprise in predicting and enhancing skills in subsequent professional practice.
Even assuming the broader validity of this narrative (and leaving the systematic frustration of Iran's true democratic aspirations during the Mossadegh era in the 1950s aside), there is one little problem with this rendition of the realities on the ground in the Middle East.
The provision of sub-regional estimates allows interventions to be classified into broad categories for decision-making that have broad validity across that set of countries – e.g. those that are very cost-effective, those that are cost-effective, and those that are cost-ineffective.
The authors assume that their experiences have broad validity.
Also, the network includes all patients in participating practices who have been diagnosed as having a primary cardiovascular event and prescribed low dose aspirin to prevent a secondary event in primary care, supporting the broad external validity of these findings.
To develop a stronger and broader validity argument, washback research with a variety of learner populations within a particular context is required.
In this broad view, the validity of a measurement tool is never completely proven; successive new data influence the degree of confidence that can be placed on inferences about individuals based on their scale scores.
In a Finnish study of female twins, the 5-year clinical recovery rates of AN and broad AN were almost the same; i.e. 66.8 % and 69.1 % respectively, providing evidence for the validity of broad AN [ 14].
Diverse teams are better positioned to monitor the population as a whole by contacting a broad sample, increasing the validity of identified threats and opportunities.
The lead author of Wednesday's article, Dr. Joseph S. Ross of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said a close look at the Merck documents raised broad questions about the validity of much of the drug industry's published research, because the ghostwriting practice appears to be widespread.
