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### The Hypothesis of Determining Validation Arguments
"Does the evidence support the intended use?"
### Build the Argument
1. **Interpretation (Assumption) Use Argument** (Upfront)
2. **Validity Argument (Final Argument)** → Final reasoning
### Readiness for:
| Readiness for... | Evidence of Readiness | Activity that Demonstrates |
|-----------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
| Using AIR to provide formative feedback to a debriefing peer | Formative | AIR training module completion |
| Using DASH to determine readiness for solo debriefing of an onboarding peer | Summative | DASH rater training workshop with clean real cases, WBA comparison in the user context |
### Prioritize Most Worrisome Inferences/Assumptions:
- Using empirical online into social dynamics
- Audio-only → using empirical live, in-person = **Extrapolation**
**For Article Next Steps:**
- Develop a plan that will refute or confirm.
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# Best Practices in Assessment: Part 1 - Define Goal
### Checklists vs. Global Ratings:
- **Balance** between checklists and global rating rubrics, they have their tradeoffs
### Steps:
1. Make validity argument influence **use** → upfront
2. Define roles/key deficiencies → prioritize gaps
3. Refine to collect what's easy — collect what's important
- May need to experiment here
4. PDSA to make sure it is practical or won't be questioned
5. Collect data
6. Determine validity argument (end)
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### Metaphors:
- **Bookends:** Interpretation — Use and Validity Argument
- The center: You may need to add or remove a book here or there to end with a sustainable, meaningful, useful program.
### Manufacturing Metaphor:
**C-I-P-P**
1. **Raw Materials** → Unrefined inputs
2. **Process** → Refinement/testing
3. **Product**
> If our product is a ready program for that domain, there are just a series of things that **must** happen to get to that. What we care about: how we emphasize/triangulate/take tradeoffs. Series of choices = cost.
## Source:
Cook, D. A., & Hatala, R. (2016). Validation of educational assessments: A primer for simulation and beyond. _Advances in Simulation_, _1_(1), 31. [https://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-016-0033-y](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-016-0033-y)