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Test Your Construct Validity Knowledge - Matching Exercise

Read the assessment scenarios and match each to the correct indicator of construct validity.

1


Researchers were interested in measuring shyness. They examined the measure and said that the measure appears “on the face of it” to actually measure shyness.

2


Researchers demonstrated that student’s high school SAT (achievement) scores could predict student’s success in college.

3


Researchers expected to find the students that did not ask for help in class who score lower on the shyness scale than students that asked for help in class.

4


Researchers compared participant’s scores on the self-esteem scale to another self-esteem scale and found the there was a strong positive correlation.

5


Researchers compared participant’s scores on the political ideology scale and fear of flying scale. They found no relationship between the two scales.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 5
A)face validity
B)predictive validity
C)concurrent validity
D)convergent validity
E)discriminant validity





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