Understanding Screening: What Do the Screening Standards Mean?
Understanding Screening: What Do the Screening Standards Mean?
Resource Type
Tools/Tips
Developed By
National Center on Intensive Intervention and National Center for Improving Literacy
We know that validity, reliability, classification accuracy, statistical bias, and sample representativeness are important considerations when reviewing screening tools, but what do they actually mean? These five screening one-page documents provide a brief overview of each of these areas that are used on the NCII Screening Tools Charts. These one-pagers include a definition, examples, and information on why that particular standard is important for understanding the quality of screening tools.
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