Case Control Design
Case Control Design
Cross-sectional design
- Here we follow the same group over an extended period of time eg:
if psychologists wish to track IQ scores of children from age 5-27
Advantages
Disadvantages
Types of reliability
Limitations of reliability
Validity- The extent to which the test measures what it claims to measure
Types of validity
Criterion validity – It measure all the possible criterions around the test
(psychometric test), It is further subdivided into:
Limitations to validity
Correlation
10-30- poor
31-65- moderate
65-99- strong