The 98-item MARS (MARS 98-item) and a shorter 30-item version (MARS 30-item) were leach administered twice tol 124 female and male volunteers ( 63 women and 61 mons. The study also aimed to provide information on validity and test-retest reliability for the brief version. The purpose of this study was to develop systematically a shorter version of the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. Despite the usefulness of the original scale, researchers have sought a shorter version of the scale to reduce the administration time of the original 98 -item inventory. EXCERPT FROM THE RESEARCH ARTICLE' As a measure of mathematics anxiety, the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) has been a major scale used for research and clinical studies since 1972. Only the name is changed to reliability coefficient or validity coefficient to indicate the purpose for which it is being used. Note that when the Pearson r correlation coefficient is used to describe reliability and validity, it is calculated using the same formula and is interpreted in the same way as any other Pearson r. When correlation coefficients are used to describe validity, they are usually called validity coefficients. To the extent that the two variables are related in the expected direction (i.e., reading test scores are positively correlated with teachers' ratings of students' reading ability), the test is said to be valid.

The validity of a test refers to the extent to which for estimating validity is to administer the test (e.g., a reading test) tod group of examinees and to obtain another set of scores on a variable that should be related to the test scores (e.g., teachers' ratings of students' reading ability).

7.4 Test-Retest Reliability and Validity Coefficients Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale STATISTICAL GUIDE One important use of correlation is to describe the validity of tests and measurement scales.

Study validity and reliability