Validity evidence
hernia
Validity assessment of the module “Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair” on the Serious Game Touch Surgery™ was performed based on Messick’s framework. According to Messick, different aspects of validity evidence are combined under the overarching concept of construct validity [Content evidence is demonstrated when a tool is considered useful and representative of the skills that need to be learned for the real procedure and when test items and format constitute a relevant and representative sample of the domain of tasks [Therefore, to obtain validity evidence, this study aimed to answer two questions: does experience level influence performance on the laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair module on TS (relations to other variables evidence), and can the laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair module on TS be considered useful and representative of the skills that need to be learned to perform the actual procedure in a simulated environment (content evidence)?”.