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title: 'contentvalidR: Tools for Substantive and Content Validity Pretesting'
version: 0.10.1
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.contentvalidR
abstract: Provides quantitative tools for substantive and content-oriented scale pretesting.
  Implements item-sort indices from Anderson and Gerbing (1991) <https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.76.5.732>,
  exact item-sort inference following Howard and Melloy (2016) <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-015-9404-y>,
  empirical interpretation benchmarks from Colquitt et al. (2019) <https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000406>,
  and the construct-rating procedure of Hinkin and Tracey (1999) <https://doi.org/10.1177/109442819922004>
  with HTC/HTD indices and repeated-measures item screening. The expert-panel workflow
  combines Aiken's V with score confidence intervals, Lawshe content validity ratios
  with exact inference, content validity indices with modified kappa and score intervals,
  item-objective congruence, and panel-level agreement using Krippendorff's alpha
  as described by Hayes and Krippendorff (2007) <https://doi.org/10.1080/19312450709336664>.
  Also provides judge and rater heterogeneity analysis following the generalizability-theory
  treatment of content-validity ratings in Crocker, Llabre and Miller (1988) <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3984.1988.tb00309.x>,
  content-domain coverage and expert-perceived content structure following Sireci
  and Geisinger (1992) <https://doi.org/10.1177/014662169201600102>, consensus and
  stability across Delphi rounds with between-round weighted kappa following Holey
  et al. (2007) <https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-7-52>, comparison across successive
  pretest rounds, and exact expert-panel planning. Where published methods compete,
  users choose among them through arguments with evidence-based defaults. User-facing
  workflows emphasize interpretable summaries and transparent review recommendations
  rather than isolated coefficients.
authors:
- family-names: Uhalt
  given-names: Joshua
  email: Josh.Uhalt@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'contentvalidR: Tools for substantive and content validity pretesting'
  authors:
  - family-names: Uhalt
    given-names: Joshua
    email: Josh.Uhalt@gmail.com
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.10.1
  url: https://github.com/JUhalt/contentvalidR
repository: https://juhalt.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/JUhalt/contentvalidR
commit: 4c13be087f2b2fd0dc7179525265b25c9160f0e5
url: https://juhalt.github.io/contentvalidR/
date-released: '2026-09-29'
contact:
- family-names: Uhalt
  given-names: Joshua
  email: Josh.Uhalt@gmail.com