understanding reliability and validity in quantitative research

Kanji learning of Japanese language learners on a year-long study exchange at a Japanese university: An investigation of strategy use, motivation control and self regulation. Effects of stress and working memory capacity on foreign language readers’ inferential processing during comprehension.

Teaching assistants’ self-efficacy in teaching literature: Sources, personal assessments, and consequences. Effects of static visuals and computer-generated animations in facilitating Immediate and delayed achievement in the EFL classroom. Student and instructor beliefs and attitudes about target language use, first language use and anxiety: Report of a questionnaire study. Teachers’ sense of efficacy in teaching English, perceived English proficiency and attitudes toward English language: A case of Korean public elementary teachers. Reliability and Validity in Quantitative Research Reliability and validity are tools of an essentially positivist epistemology. Continuum companion to research methods in applied linguistics.

For this reason, it is useful to understand how the. Social validity refers to the acceptability of intervention or program goals, procedures, and outcomes to educators, families, and students. Research methods in applied linguistics: Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodologies. The validity and reliability of the scales used in research are important factors that enable the research to yield healthy results. The current study reviewed the practice and application of social validity assessments in single-case design (SCD) studies within the field of school psychology.

Understanding reliability and validity in quantitative research