Considerations of Construct Validity in Language Testing Context

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Suttinee Chuanchaisit

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This paper aims to describe clear concept of construct validity and its relevance, focusing on language testing context. The major contribution is to clarify the characteristics of construct validity and explain it in a straightforward way leading to the derivation of an acceptable and workable conceptual scheme with practical implications. Messick's (1989) theory of test validity, particularly the unified view of construct validity, is profoundly influential in part because it brings together disparate contributions into a unified framework for building validity arguments. Two major discussions were provided, the first being more straightforward and including a discourse on several ways of thinking about the ideas of validity, and notions of construct validity. Here, construct validity is seen as the overarching quality with all of the other measurement validity labels falling beneath it. The second, an elaboration on the expansion of the unitary concept of construct validity. Finally a synthesis of ideas is presented through a conceptual framework demonstrating the similarity between construct validation procedures taking place in operational and in a language testing contexts.

Keywords: Construct Validity, Validity, Language Testing

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Chuanchaisit, S. (2014). Considerations of Construct Validity in Language Testing Context. Journal of Studies in the English Language, 8. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jsel/article/view/18190
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Vol. 8 (2013)
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