Abstract
Validity is no longer applicable only to the psychometric community. Today the school community, the courts, the news media, government, and special interests have at least an equal hand in the matter. The paper updates the concept of test validity to match the current educational scene. The new conception entails a set of 10 categories yoked together in pairs: curriculum and instructional validity, statutory and forensic validity, media and journalistic validity, political and legislative validity, and partisan and activist validity.
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