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Glossary · Validity and evidence

Content evidence

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Evidence that the task blueprint covers the construct's domain and facets in justified proportions. It guards against construct underrepresentation: a text-to-SQL suite of simple filters cannot support a claim about enterprise SQL.

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Handbook · ValidationSources of validity evidenceFace, content, response-process, internal-structure, convergent, discriminant and criterion evidence, plus the multitrait–multimethod design.
Construct facet
A distinct dimension within a construct, used to build a content blueprint for the task population.

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