Are the questions normed and validated? Can I see them before our institution buys a site license?
Our focus has been on research and content validity. The issues selected for study are those raised by research as the most promising potential benefits and the most worrisome potential problems. Most items in the Flashlight Current Student Inventory (the items tapped by Flashlight Online) have been subjected to trial use and then to follow-up focus groups to make sure that the wording is clear to many types of respondents. The CSI is an item bank. As such it can’t have true validity and reliability since both depend so much on the order of the questions in a static instrument. However, the items in the CSI have content validity because a) many of them are based on the seven principles of good practice in higher education and b) different versions were reviewed by experts from five pilot institutions. We then tested items for face validity by having more than 40 different surveys created from the item bank at these 5 pilot institutions. Approximately 2,000 respondents completed these s
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