{"id":85516,"date":"2017-10-19T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9f65d7e98351de9532093af1ebfa045c"},"modified":"2017-10-19T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T08:43:00","slug":"news-story-understanding-validity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85516","title":{"rendered":"News story: Understanding validity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ofqual has today (19 October 2017) published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/an-approach-to-understanding-validation-arguments\">research paper exploring validity in educational assessment<\/a> and its relationship to Ofqual\u2019s work. In the paper, Paul Newton, Research Chair at Ofqual, asks \u2018What is validity?\u2019 and \u2018How is it possible to judge whether a qualification has sufficient validity?\u2019. He explores what Ofqual means when it says that \u2018it regulates so that qualifications are sufficiently valid and trusted\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is an introduction to the concept of validity in education assessment, and aims to help those who are new to the subject understand how validity can mean different things to different people, and yet still be critical to the success of any assessment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the paper, Paul explores \u2018What is validity?\u2019 in a video for our YouTube channel, and appears in the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/347433702-user-481877627-1-1-understanding-validity-ofqual-podcast.mp3\">first episode of our research podcast<\/a> to talk about validity and the publication of today\u2019s paper.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hQkrfQgdGEo\">Paul Newton explores \u2018What is validity?\u2019 in a video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofqual&#8217;s Research Chair, Paul Newton, publishes a paper exploring validity in assessment and its role in Ofqual&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85526,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85516\/revisions\/85526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}