Reliability & Validity

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Introduction to Validity.
William Trochim's introduction to validity in his comprehensive online textbook about research methods and issues.
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/introval.htm

Reliability.
Trochim's overview of reliability.
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/reliable.htm

External Validity.
William Trochim's discussion of external reliability.
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/EXTERVAL.htm

Educational Psychology Interactive: Internal and External Validity.
A Web document addressing key issues of external and internal validity.
http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~whuitt/psy702/intro/valdgn.html

Cultural Anthropology Methods Journal.
An online journal containing articles on the practical application of research methods when conducting qualitative and quantitative research. Reliability and validity are addressed throughout.
http://www.lawrence.edu/~bradleyc/cam.html

The sin of omission -punishable by death to internal validity: An argument for integration of quantitative research methods to strengthen internal validity.
This site examines the merits of integrating qualitative and quantitative research methodologies through triangulation. The author argues that improving the internal validity of social science will be the result of such a union.
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/gallery/bowen/hss691.htm

Reliability and validity of information provided by museum Web sites.
This Web page examines the validity of museum Web sites which calls into question the validity of Web-based resources in general. Addresses the issue that all Websites should be examined with skepticism about the validity of the information contained within them.
http://www.oise.on.ca/~jfbussieres/issue.html

Internal Validity Tutorial.
An interactive tutorial on internal validity. http://server.bmod.athabascau.ca/html/Validity/index.shtml