Question

Correlating high school senior SAT scores with their later freshman college GPA is an example of: a. Concurrent validity b. Face validity c. Test-retest validity d. Predictive validity

Answer 1

• This is an example of predictive validity. Since the SAT scores are correlated with the students later GPA it indicates predictive validity.
• Predictive validity evidence refers to the degree to which test scores are correlated with relevant variables that are measured at a future point in time and in this case "later" could indicate maybe an year later the scores are taken.
• Concurrent validity evidence refers to the degree to which test scores are correlated with other relevant variables that are measured at the same time as the primary test of interest. So if the scores were obtained at the same time then above mentioned example would be depiciting this type of validity.