Discussion:
Best validation method
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Suppose you were in charge of admissions for a college, and were choosing a test to give to applicants to your college. You want the test scores to be a good indicator of how the applicants would perform academically in college. One test you are evaluating is Snider's Speedy School Skills Selection Test (SSSSST), a college entrance exam similar to the SAT and ACT. According to the developers of the SSSSST, it tests high school seniors on the essential skills they should have learned in high school.
(a) Which kind of evidence for the validity of this test would be most important to you: content validity, predictive validity, or face validity? Why?
(b) Which of the validity methods listed in (a) would be least important to you? Why?