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Construct Validity/Evidence
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Construct Validity

Construct validity is the degree to which a test or scale actually measures the theoretical construct it is intended to measure. Introduced by Cronbach and Meehl in 1955, it is the central validity concern in psychological and educational measurement, evaluated by accumulating multiple lines of empirical and logical evidence rather than by any single statistical test.

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Construct Validity
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / psychometrics
  • Cronbach, L. J. & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52(4), 281–302. · DOI 10.1037/h0040957
  • Messick, S. (1989). Validity. In R. L. Linn (Ed.), Educational Measurement (3rd ed., pp. 13–103). American Council on Education / Macmillan. · ISBN 978-0029190609
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Taxonomic bucketConfirmatory factor analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketContent Validitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketConvergent Validitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketDiscriminant Validitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyEFAmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketNomological Validitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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