AQA Psychology RM - reliability and validity

This resource is a lesson to consolidate learning on validity and reliability with some hands on activities to get students actively thinking and putting in to practice valid and reliable measuring tools and considering their usefulness.

This resource includes a powerpoint, handout with space for students to write notes on the activities and the activity workbook student and teacher version. All you need is scissors and rulers, possibly glue and some spare plain paper. Students seem to really enjoy and get engaged in this lesson and it really seems to help them work out the difference between the two concepts.

There are two of the student workbook files, one labelled student file, another that is the teacher version, the only difference is that the photos for Lombroso for validity analysis have an additional page with the answers on should you not know who the people in the photographs are - . the only one not a criminal is 14, who is an actor from the Hills have eyes, the others are all criminals but some may not fit Lombrosos atavistic form theory which is where the discussion about validity gets really interesting.