Glossary C
Glossary C
Construct is defined as an intellectual hypothesis that people devise and use to interpret or explain life events. Constructs are bipolar or dichotomous, as in tall versus short or good versus bad, or beautiful or ugly and so on.
Construct systems is a term used by Kelly that refers to the collection of personal constructs with which people make predictions about future events.
Construct validity approach refers to an approach to test construction in which scales are developed based on a specific theory, refined using factor analysis and other procedures, and through emperical study, validated by showing that individuals who achieve certain scores behave in ways that could be predicted by their scores.
Construct validity evidence is defined as a process used to established the meaning of a test through a series of studies. To evaluate evidence for construct validity, a researcher simultaneously defines some construct and develops the instrumentation to measure it. In the studies, observed correlations between the test and other measures provide evidence for the meaning of the test.