The degree to which test items appear to be directly related to the attribute the researcher wishes to measure.

How a measure or procedure appears.

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the apparent appropriateness of an experimental design in resolving the question it is intended to address, at a subjective level.

When a technique clearly appears to do what it’s intended to do.

is a measure of the extent the items included within an experiment appear to be appropriate for what they are being used to measure irrespective of whether they actually are.

This is a very basic form of validity in which you determine if a measure appears (on the face of it) to measure what it is supposed to measure. In other words, does the measure "appear" to [..]

The extent to which a survey or a test appears to actually measure what the researcher claims it measures. For example, a researcher may create survey questions that s/he claims measure gender role at [..]

A study is said to have "face validity" if it "rings true" or makes sense.

The degree to which a test appears to measure the knowledge or abilities it claims to measure, based on the subjective judgment of an observer.

A subjective assessment that appeals to the apparent validity of an instrument for its stated purpose. It relates to the extent to which the instrument looks or appears to be pertinent to the measurement task at hand.

A measurement that, on the surface, appears to measure what it is supposed to measure.

Another method that is used rarely because it is not very sophisticated is face validity. It is based only on the appearance of the measure and what it is supposed to measure, but not what the test ac [..]

A property of a test in which its appearance suggests to an observer that it will measure that which it has been designed to measure. * '''2004''', Kirsten Malmkjær (ed.), ''Translation in Undergra [..]