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This paper is adapted from the author's dissertation entitledToward a Theory of Construct Validity: An Application of Inductive Logic to the Analysis of Experimental Episodes and is the complete version of a paper presented at the 1976 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco.
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Rossi, R.J. Application of inductive logic to the analysis of construct validity. Synthese 37, 285–319 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00873243
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