Concept information
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clinical medicine
medical decision making
health outcomes and measurement
health status measurement
Preferred term
construct validity
Definition
- Construct validity refers to the degree to which inferences can legitimately be made from the theoretical constructs on which operationalizations within the study are based. Simplistically, construct validity is about naming something (a program, an attribute) accurately. [Source: Encyclopedia of Evaluation; Construct Validity]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/construct_validity
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