POSC300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Face Validity
23 Oct 2018
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Newspapers, magazine articles, blogs, and tv news and documentaries. May help you identify topics of interest and inspire research questions. Can"t trust that the information is empirically credible - no peer review. Professional articles and books published throughout a peer-review process. Published in academic journals and university press. An idea or mental construct that represents phenomenon in the real world. Need to clarify the concepts measurable properties. Make an inventory of the concept"s concrete properties and then critically evaluate whether they are essential. Figuring out how we are going to actually measure our concepts in our research project. This is the last step in the conceptualization process. Apply the same test to the same observations after a period of time and then compare the results. Measuring the same attribute more than once and at different times, but using two different measures. Using two measures of the same concept at the same time, then compare results.
