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Education QUESTION #6753
Question 1
A researcher finds that a well-known mathematics aptitude test correlates strongly with students' later success in engineering programs. This evidence most directly supports which type of validity?
  • Content validity, because the test covers math topics found in engineering
  • Predictive criterion validity, because test scores are related to a future performance criterion✔️
  • Concurrent criterion validity, because both measures exist at the same time
  • Construct validity, because mathematical aptitude is a theoretical construct
Correct Answer Explanation
Criterion validity is established by correlating test scores with an external criterion. When the criterion is measured at a future point in time (engineering success), this is predictive validity — a subtype of criterion validity. Content validity is about domain sampling; construct validity is about the underlying psychological construct. Concurrent validity uses a simultaneously-collected criterion.