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Title: Credibility and other criteria for “good evidence”: integrating diverse perspectives, toward better judgments about evaluation and applied research
Creator: Mark, Melvin M
Date Created and/or Issued: 2006-08-19
Publication Information: Claremont Graduate University. School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Lectures on Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science
Rights Information: Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws.
Description: Melvin Mark, professor of psychology at The Pennsylvania State University, presents this conclusion to the symposium, “What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research.” Mark synthesizes presentations given during this symposium, focusing particularly on how the presentations described what does actually constitute credibility in research, and how these presentations themselves demonstrated one of the main sources of disagreement about credibility within the field. According to Mark, one of the main causes of academic debate surrounding this issue is the lack of contextual descriptions in discussions of what credibility means. In other words what constitutes credibility changes depending on what was studied and for what purpose, who is describing it and why, and who is interpreting the credibility and why. Mark compares this common sense interpretation of when evidence is credible to the fact that evaluators and applied social scientists often seek a gold standard. In the case of contextually driven issues such as credibility, a gold standard is unlikely to exist.
Type: moving image
Format: video/mp4
video/h264; video/quicktime
video/f4v
Identifier: lap00012
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lap/id/8
Language: English
Subject: Evaluation
Social sciences
Credible Evidence
Source: Original video: 60 minute digital 8mm cassette; Tape 10; recorded symposium presentation entitled, “Credibility and Other Criteria for 'Good Evidence': Integrating Diverse Perspectives, Toward Better Judgments About Evaluation and Applied Research,” from the symposium entitled, “What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research,” August 19, 2006
Relation: What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research
Claremont Graduate University's Stauffer Symposium Series
Claremont Graduate University Lectures on Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/lap

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