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Peer reviewedFeldt, Leonard S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1997
It has often been asserted that the reliability of a measure places an upper limit on its validity. This article demonstrates in theory that validity can rise when reliability declines, even when validity evidence is a correlation with an acceptable criterion. Whether empirical examples can actually be found is an open question. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Criteria, Reliability, Test Construction
