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Validity

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Paper1955

Construct Validity in Psychological Tests

Lee J. Cronbach & Paul E. Meehl

Defines construct validity as the case where a test cannot be validated against any single external criterion because the thing it measures - like anxiety or intelligence - is itself a theoretical construct, and lays out how a network of predicted relationships can validate it instead.

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Paper1995

Validity of Psychological Assessment: Validation of Inferences From Persons' Responses and Performances as Scientific Inquiry Into Score Meaning

Samuel Messick

Argues validity is not a fixed property of a test itself but a unified judgement about the adequacy of interpreting and acting on scores, folding content, criterion and consequences all into a single construct-validity framework.

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Construct Validity in Psychological Tests

Validity of Psychological Assessment: Validation of Inferences From Persons' Responses and Performances as Scientific Inquiry Into Score Meaning

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