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Flashlight Handbook Table of
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The value of any questionnaire or survey is
limited by how it can measure what it purports to measure
(validity) and whether the results stay the same when the
reality stays the same (reliability).
The Flashlight Current Student Inventory was
subjected to content validity testing: an 18-month series of
focus groups culminated in meetings with students, faculty
and administrators from the five Flashlight institutions;
this was just after over 2,000 of their students had
responded to surveys created with an earlier version of this
Inventory. Where the respondents liked the items and agreed
on their interpretation, we retained them. Where they had
problems or suggestions, we altered items and added new
ones.
Because the validity of your questionnaire
will also be affected by the exact wording of items, their
order, and the context in which it is administered, our
efforts to assure the validity of the item bank do not
guarantee the validity of your questionnaire, but they
help. Your information about the validity of items in your
context could also help us improve the validity of future
versions of this Inventory.
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