Construct Validity Refers To

question 12

Multiple Choice

Construct validity refers to:

• A)the ability of a test's findings to relate to a specific outcome.
• B)the degree to which a sample of test items represent a psychological domain.
• C)the ability of a test to predict future behavior.
• D)the ability of a test to measure an abstract psychological characteristic.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

Distribution of statistics for samples randomly drawn from populations.

Sample Means

The arithmetic average of a set of values taken from a larger population, used in statistics to estimate the population mean.

Population Mean

Mean associated with an entire population.

Sampling Distribution

Refers to a statistical distribution that represents all possible values of a statistic for a given size of samples drawn from a population.