Section: AP Psychology

25) Before Carl Rogers University would award Ms. Diaz a teaching degree, she needed to satisfactorily complete her student-teaching.  During her student teaching, observers from the University graded Ms. Diaz on various aspects of her teaching performance.  The school is hopeful their mock teaching experience has high _______, thereby allowing them to determine Ms. Diaz's likely strengths and weaknesses within the classroom.  

1. predictive validity
2. equivalent form reliability
3. construct validity
4. split-half reliability
5. bell curve

Predictive validity is the extent to which a score on a scale or test predicts scores on some criterion measure. For example, the validity of a cognitive test for job performance is the correlation between test scores and, for example, supervisor performance ratings.