Year | definition | source | 1981 | "Construct validity is the extent to which a particular test can be shown to measure a hypothetical construct." | Wingard, Peter (1981, p.216) |
1984 | "Construct validity refers to the degree to which scores on a scale have a pattern of correlations with other scores or attributes that would be predicted by a well-established theory." | Slavin, R E (1984, p.82) |
1988 | "Construct validity focuses on the assessment of whether a particular measure relates to other measures consistent with theoretically derived hypotheses concerning the relationship among concepts." | Zeller, R. A. (1988, p.326) |