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Record W4417210528 · doi:10.1080/17457300.2025.2574894

Establishing the content validity of the community safety and peace index

2025· article· en· W4417210528 on OpenAlex
Naiema Taliep, Ghouwa Ismail, Shahnaaz Suffla, Mohamed Seedat, Lu‐Anne Swart, Ashley van Niekerk, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPeace and Human Rights Education
Canadian institutionsImpactMcMaster UniversityPopulation Health Research Institute
FundersUniversity of South AfricaNational Research Foundation
KeywordsContent validityTest (biology)Index (typography)Poison controlCitizen journalismConstruct validityIdentification (biology)Construct (python library)Human factors and ergonomics

Abstract

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There is a relative paucity of research on the drivers, indicators and mediating mechanisms underlying community level safety and peace promotion. We developed community-level safety and peace indicators drawing on two community-based studies. Guided by the values and principles of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and classical test methodology, the initial index development phases included: conceptualisation, identification of dimensions, operationalisation of dimensions, refinement of indicators, item generation, and item reduction phase. Content validity evidence is crucial for developing scientifically sound instruments and demonstrating a clear causal connection between the targeted construct and the items designed to measure it. The aim of this study is to establish the content validity of the Community Safety and Peace Index (CSPI), which primarily drew on local community-based knowledges in its development. The different data sets were triangulated in a retrospective evaluation workshop, three expert panel reviews, community input, and test developers' consensus. The team reached consensus on the conceptualisation and measurement of community safety and peace, operationalisation of key constructs, identification of dimensions, indicators, and questionnaire items.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.668
Threshold uncertainty score0.526

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it