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Article 1:  Xi, X. (2010). How do we go about investigating test fairness? Language Testing, 27(2) 147–170. DOI: 10.1177/0265532209349465

[The relationship between validity and fairness are explored in this article, using data from an English test for foreign language speakers to demonstrate the connectedness of these concepts.]

Questions to Consider:

1. Describe some of the reasons the author reports there to be a lag of empirical fairness research in language testing.
2. In regards to psychological testing, what are the three ways fairness has been conceptualized?
3. Describe the author’s proposed definition of fairness.

Article 2:  Messing, J.T., Campbell, J., Wilson, J.S.  Brown, S. & Patchell, B. (2015). The Lethality Screen: The Predictive Validity of an Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment for Use by First Responders. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1–22. DOI: 10.1177/0886260515585540

[This study evaluates the predictive validity of an intimate partner violence risk assessment and safety implications for victims.]

Questions to Consider:

1. There have been several predictive research studies which used the five primary intimate partner violence risk assessment tools.  Describe the common themes found in these predictive studies and why the risk assessment tool used in this study is different.
2. What formulas are used to determine specificity for the correct classifications of true cases and non-cases?
3. Describe the study’s results for predictive validity of the Lethality Screen as they relate to severe violence and/or near lethality.