Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Construct Validity
- Criterion Validity
- evaluates how closely your measure's results align
with those from existing, valid measures
- Concurrent Validity
- distinguishing
participants
appropriately
- e.g. if assessing a new
measure of depression,
participants should be
separated into two
groups: depressives
and non-depressives
- Predictive Validity
- measure's ability to
predict future
outcomes
- e.g. reading scores at
7yo's predictive power
of academic
performance at 17
- Content Validity
- all aspects of the construct are being assessed
- e.g. if construct pertains to personality, does the measure
assess the 5 main traits? (OCEAN)
- Face Validity
- the measure's content seems suitable
- e.g. does a test with math questions appear to be a
relevant measure of arithmetic ability?
- Discriminant (Divergent) Validity
- shows two measures that are not supposed to be
related are in fact, unrelated
- correlation coefficient can be used to prove dissociation
- Convergent Validity
- two similar measures of the construct are significantly
correlated (r= >.5, ideally >.7)
- e.g. studying exam anxiety (construct) via a survey and participant
observation. Convergence or correlation of scores shows both are
measuring the same construct