Test validation on remote criteria

Abstract

"The component tests of a test battery cannot be directly validated on success in the situation or the job unless the requirements of scientific experiments are rigorously met. This implies either that all other factors except the one under consideration are equated and kept constant or that adequate mathematical safeguards (including provision for taking care of the error of rounding off) are set up to measure all important variations. Such a task requires both logical analysis and mathematical treatment… . Where the situation or the job is adequately analyzed and where the characteristics needed for the job are clearly established, it is better to validate tests on immediate criteria." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)