Which of the Following Is the Most Accurate Definition of Concurrent

question 17

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the most accurate definition of concurrent validity?

• A)It is an estimate of whether a validity test appears to measure a certain criterion.
• B)It is performed by demonstrating that the questions or problems in a validity test are representative of situations at work.
• C)It assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and then correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance.
• D)It seeks to establish an empirical relationship between test scores taken prior to being hired and eventual performance on the job.
• E)It is the degree to which a measure is correlated with other measures that it is theoretically predicted to correlate.

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Definitions:

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