Daraga Community College

Salvacion Daraga Albay

Salve Llona

III-BCAED

6 types of Validity

Type # 1. Face Validity:

 Face Validity to the extent the test appears to measure what is to be measured.
 Face validity refers to whether a test appears to be valid or not i.e., from external appearance
whether the items appear to measure the required aspect or not. If a test measures what the
test author desires to measure, we say that the test has face validity.

Type # 2. Content Validity:

 Content Validity a process of matching the test items with the instructional objectives.
 Content validity is the most important criterion for the usefulness of a test, especially of an
achievement test. It is also called as Rational Validity or Logical Validity or Curricular Validity or
Internal Validity or Intrinsic Validity.
 Content validity refers to the degree or extent to which a test consists items representing the
behaviours that the test maker wants to measure. The extent to which the items of a test are
true representative of the whole content and the objectives of the teaching is called the content
validity of the test.

Type # 3. Predictive Validity:

 Predictive Validity the extent to which test predicts the future performance of students.
 Predictive validity is concerned with the predictive capacity of a test. It indicates the
effectiveness of a test in forecasting or predicting future outcomes in a specific area. The test
user wishes to forecast an individual’s future performance. Test scores can be used to predict
future behaviour or performance and hence called as predictive validity.

Type # 4. Concurrent Validity:

 Concurrent Validity correlating the test scores with another set of criterion scores.
 Concurrent validity refers to the extent to which the test scores correspond to already
established or accepted performance, known as criterion. To know the validity of a newly
constructed test, it is correlated or compared with some available information.

Type # 5. Construct Validity:

 Construct Validity the extent is which the test may be said to measure a theoretical construct or
psychological variable.
  A construct is mainly psychological. Usually it refers to a trait or mental process. Construct
validation is the process of determining the extent to which a particular test measures the
psychological constructs that the test maker intends to measure.

Type # 6. Factorial Validity:

 Factorial Validity the extent of correlation of the different factors with the whole test.
 Factorial validity is determined by a statistical technique known as factor analysis. It uses
methods of explanation of inter-correlations to identify factors (which may be verbalised as
abilities) constituting the test.
 In other words methods of inter-correlation and other statistical methods are used to estimate
factorial validity. The correlation of the test with each factor is calculated to determine the
weight contributed by each such factor to the total performance of the test.