Categories: Site glossary
appearing ('on the face of it') to measure what is purported to be measure
example of use:
"Among the items included in the instrument were … providing face validity at least that the items in the different scales were indeed eliciting responses based on different emotions" (Taber, 2018, p.1294)
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