Stepping Outside the Normed Sample: Implications for Validity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-4-2017
Publication Title
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
Volume
50
Issue
4
First page number:
282
Last page number:
288
Abstract
We present considerations for validity when a population outside of a normed sample is assessed and those data are interpreted. Using a career group counseling example exploring life satisfaction changes as evidenced by the Quality of Life Inventory (Frisch, 1994 Frisch, M. B. (1994). Quality of life inventory: Manual and treatment guide. Minneapolis, MN: Pearson. [Google Scholar]), we showcase qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore how normative data could be a useful comparison to a dissimilar sample.
Keywords
Normed sample; Normative sample; Validity
Disciplines
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Language
English
Repository Citation
Hays, D. G.,
Wood, C.
(2017).
Stepping Outside the Normed Sample: Implications for Validity.
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 50(4),
282-288.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2017.1339565