Question

Comparing final test performance with work performance, after one full year in the company, would indicate a measure of the ______ of the test paper.

Choose the best suited answer:

1. construct validity

2. concurrent criterion

3. predictive criterion validity

4. content validity

Answer 1

Out of the four given options, predictive criterion validity is correct and the sentence should be as follows.

Comparing final test performance with work performance, after one full year in the company, would indicate a measure of the predictive criterion validity of the test paper.

This is because the objective is to compare the results of the test taken while hiring the employee a year back and the employees subsequent performance for the following year and to see to what extent the test was succesful or accurate in being able to predict the employee's future performance and thus predictive criterion validity is the correct answer in the given case.

Construct validity indicates whether the operationalisation accurately reflects its construct, concurrent validity shows whether the operationalisation can distinguish into the groups that it should have theoretically been able to and content validity checks whether all aspects of the domain are checked against the operationalisation. Since neither of these indicate the predictibility of future performance, they are not correct.