Package: contentvalidR
Type: Package
Title: Tools for Substantive and Content Validity Pretesting
Version: 0.4.0
Authors@R: c(
    person(given = "Joshua", family = "Uhalt", email = "Josh.Uhalt@gmail.com",
           role = c("aut", "cre"))
    )
Description: Provides quantitative tools for substantive and content-oriented
    scale pretesting. Implements item-sort indices from Anderson and Gerbing
    (1991) <doi:10.1037/0021-9010.76.5.732>, exact item-sort inference
    following Howard and Melloy (2016) <doi:10.1007/s10869-015-9404-y>,
    empirical interpretation benchmarks from Colquitt et al. (2019)
    <doi:10.1037/apl0000406>, and the construct-rating procedure of Hinkin and
    Tracey (1999) <doi: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)
    <doi: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)
    <doi:10.1111/j.1745-3984.1988.tb00309.x>, content-domain coverage and
    expert-perceived content structure following Sireci and Geisinger (1992)
    <doi:10.1177/014662169201600102>, 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.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
Depends: R (>= 4.0.0)
Imports: stats
Suggests: irr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
URL: https://github.com/JUhalt/contentvalidR,
        https://juhalt.github.io/contentvalidR/
BugReports: https://github.com/JUhalt/contentvalidR/issues
Config/Needs/website: r-lib/pkgdown
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-09-18 11:19:25 UTC; JUhalt
Author: Joshua Uhalt [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Joshua Uhalt <Josh.Uhalt@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-09-28 11:10:02 UTC
