Translation Validity

Subjective evaluation of whether a measure matches the construct it is meant to measure

How well the measure relates to other measures and characteristics

Does it mean the same thing as the concept.

e.g., if you want to know if someone is a liberal, asking "are you a liberal?'

Do all of the elements of the measure seem connected in the right direction to the concept.

e.g., in determining if there is there is fire, asking Is there smoke? Destruction? Heat? Ash? Burnt stuff?

Ability to predict future events.

Divorce scale actually predicts divorces.

Discriminate between groups

e.g., engineers should do better in math test than poets

Correlates positively with other measures of the same construct, or measures of very similar constructs

Correlated poorly with measures of different constructs.

E.g., we don’t want emotional intelligence measure to correlate too well with self-monitoring