Question

Dr. Li is interested in creating a measurement of religiosity. According to the dictionary, religiosity is "the quality of being religious; piety; devoutness." He creates a measure comprising 10 statements. People respond to each statement using the following scale (1 = strongly disagree, 3 = neither agree nor disagree, 5 = strongly agree). Examples of the statements are below. Statement 1: "I believe in a religion." Statement 2: "Part of who I am stems from my religious beliefs." Statement 3: "I believe that religion is unnecessary." Use the scenario to answer the following questions.

A. What is face validity?
B. Give an example of how Dr. Li could establish the face validity of his measure. Be specific.
C. What is convergent validity?
D. Give an example of how Dr. Li could establish the convergent validity of his measure. Be specific.
E. What is convergent validity?
F. Give an example of how Dr. Li could establish the divergent/discriminant validity of his measure. Be specific.

Answer 1

A

Step-by-step explanation:

Students should say that the face validity could be established by giving his measure to experts (they can state several examples of experts) and having them look at whether the items make sense (look like they measure religiosity). Students should say that the content validity could be established by giving his measure to experts (again, they can state several examples of experts) and have them look at whether the statements measure the components of religiosity (which, from the definition, may include devotion and piety, although the students do not have to be this specific).