Validity and reliability data: Skills Health Check

Skills Funding Agency did not have the information requested.

Dear Skills Funding Agency,
Please may I request information relating to validity and reliability for the Skills Health Check assessment tool featured on the new Next Step website.

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Grove

Bailey Russel (IM Services),

Dear Stephen Grove

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and received today by the Skills Funding Agency.

The Agency will undertake searches and provide a response to your request by 10 December in accordance with the Act.

Yours sincerely

Russel Bailey
Head of Records and Rights
Skills Funding Agency

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Dear Bailey Russel (IM Services),

I was assured of a response to my request by today.
I have yet to receive this.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Grove

Bailey Russel (IM Services),

Dear Mr Grove

The Agency intends to respond to you today in accordance with the Act and the previous communication, when the response has been cleared.

Yours sincerely

Russel Bailey
Head of Records and Rights

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Russel Bailey, Skills Funding Agency

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Dear Steve Grove

Please find attached the Agency's response to your request for
information.

Yours sincerely

Russel Bailey Head of Records and Rights Skills Funding Agency

Dear Russel Bailey,
Thank you for your response to my request for information about the Skills Health Check under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

As welcome as your response is however the information provided makes no reference to validity or reliability. These concepts will be familiar to the original publishers of the assessment or diagnostic tool, SHL, who will have the information requested for each of the individual assessments comprising the Skills Health Check.

Validity is concerned with the extent to which an assessment instrument actually measures what it is designed to measure. Validity is often assessed along with reliability which concerns the consistency of assessments - the extent to which an instrument gives consistent results over time and different conditions.
The higher the validity and reliability rating of an assessment tool, the greater the degree of confidence in the results.

I hope this clarifies my original request for information and look forward to an appropriate response.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Grove

Russel Bailey, Skills Funding Agency

Dear Steve Grove

Thank you for your further email. The Agency identified that you
were seeking in your original request any information it holds on
the validity and reliability for the Skills Health Check assessment
tool featured on the new Next Step website. The Agency undertook
searches and supplied on 10 December all the information it
identified as held that could possibly fall within the scope of
your request, in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act
2000. No other information was identified as held by the Agency in
its searches.

As you have indicated, the Agency would expect the information you
have further described (in your latest email) relating to validity
and reliability to be held by SHL. However, in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Agency does not hold any
further information under your request.

Yours sincerely

Russel Bailey Head of Records and Rights Skills Funding Agency