If you’ve ever wondered how psychologists and researchers make sure their tests actually measure what they claim to, then you’ve already touched on the concept of validity. One type of validity that comes up a lot in research, especially in psychology and education, is concurrent validity. This might sound technical, but it’s actually pretty…
Construct validity is a big deal in psychology, social sciences, and testing in general. If you’ve ever taken a personality test, an IQ test, or even a survey about job satisfaction, you’ve encountered a measurement that should have construct validity—meaning it actually measures what it claims to measure. But how do we know a…
When you design a test, survey, or assessment tool, you want to make sure it actually measures what it’s supposed to measure, right? That’s where content validity comes in. It’s all about checking whether a test fully and accurately represents the concept or skill it’s supposed to assess. Unlike face validity, which is just…
