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PREDICTIVE VALIDITY [4 records]

Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
DEF

... the degree to which [a psychological] test measures what it purports to measure.

CONT

... all procedures for determining test validity are concerned with the relationships between performance on the test and other independently observable facts about the behavior characteristic under consideration.... these relationships are numerous and have been described by various names. The APA Technical Recommendations... [have] classified [them]... as content, predictive, concurrent, and construct validity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
DEF

[...] degré de liaison entre le rendement du sujet dans le test et son rendement dans une autre activité que le test est censé prévoir.

OBS

Les auteurs consultés ne s'entendent pas sur le nombre et les types de «validité».

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Methods
CONT

Predictive validity refers to the accuracy with which a test is indicative of performance on a future criterion measure, e. g., scores on an academic aptitude test administered in high school to grade-point averages over four years of college.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes statistiques
CONT

Cette approche permet aux entreprises utilisatrices d'adopter un score critère en fonction des exigences en anglais d'un poste particulier.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
CONT

An art-aptitude test has predictive validity if high scores are achieved by those who later do well in art school.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Docimologie

Spanish

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Record 4 1987-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
DEF

an empirical validity measure based on the correspondence actually found for a representative sample of persons between their test scores and their actual behavior, at a given interval after testing, in the tasks in question. ... test scores may be compared with the academic marks or grades received the following year ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
CONT

On distingue deux types de validité empirique: -la validité prédictive, où l'on commence par appliquer le test et, à partir de lui, prédire le résultat à une tâche donnée; puis, au bout d'un certain temps, on effectue une mesure directe du résultat que l'on compare avec la prédiction; -la validité simultanée (...)

OBS

Les auteurs ne s'entendent pas du point de vue terminologique. Pour cette raison, il a été impossible de déterminer de façon certaine la valeur des synonymes "validité pronostique" et "validité de prédiction".

Spanish

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