In everyday language, the term validity is typically used to describe something as being trustworthy or legit. It's meaning in psychology suggests something similar—it's all about whether we can trust ...

Precision medicine has touched every aspect of healthcare today, and—as is evident from President Obama’s State of the Union speech for 2015—is front of mind with the federal government, which ...

When you perform business online, you run the risk of coming across fake websites that may steal your money, harm your computer and even steal your identity. Testing a website against some safety ...

At a very high level, it injects thousands of random values into tests—creating thousands of tests in the process. PBT ...

The first reason for caring about how sensitive our standardized tests are to instruction is moral. If the tests we use to judge the effects of instruction on student learning are not sensitive to ...

What are pre-employment tests? Pre-employment tests are used to screen job applicants and can include testing of cognitive abilities, knowledge, work skills, physical and motor abilities, personality, ...

The rapid pace of development in the field of genetics has increased our knowledge of the molecular basis of disease. This information is now being applied to the development of genetic tests, which ...

The controversial high-stakes test that debuted last spring accurately measures a student’s mastery of tough new educational standards, a report released Tuesday found, paving the way for its use in ...

In a recent warning letter, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised a laboratory to seek marketing authorization for its genetic tests that qualified as laboratory developed tests (LDTs)—which ...