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Personality Survey-Reliability and Validity
After taking the personality survey, the dimension I feel the assessment was most accurate was neuroticism, while extraversion was the least accurate. The survey ranked my neuroticism as high, which is an indication that I quickly get upset by even things that people consider normal demands of living. Essentially, the survey arrived at the decision that most people find me emotional and sensitive, and I could not agree more. I have been told this by many people, including people I have just met. Note worthy, I feel the results about my extraversion being average do not represent an accurate picture of my personality. I consider myself more of an introvert and loner and dislike chit-chat. I definitely enjoy spending time with myself rather than others.
Test-resting and alternate methods are two methods I would employ in going about reliability. Test-retest method is all about taking the test twice to determine if there will be correlating test scores. I would wait a while before administering the test to make it harder for the participant to remember the answers to their previous test. The alternate method will use parallel tests to determine reliability. In this case, I would have the survey get filled out using two Forms, A and B. For maximum effectiveness, these tests will be administered one following the other. As regards validity, one of the methods that would be used to estimate it is cross-validation method. Here, the survey would be taken by a different group with the goal of assessing the survey’s usefulness. Moreover, the correlation coefficient method can be used to evaluate validity. In this case, a newly constructed test would be administered, and its score correlated with those of criterion scores. The correlation coefficient would show the test’s extent of validity index.
