The Construct Validity of Aptitude Tests: An Information-Processing Assessment.
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Abstract
This article presents an information-processing assessment of the construct validity of aptitude tests. It proposes that aptitude tests have been rather successful because they do possess high construct validity, although the constructs in terms of which the tests may be most profitably understood are information-processing rather than psychometric ones. Certain inconsistencies in the constructs proposed by alternative psychometric theories of aptitudes are proposed to disappear when these constructs are understood in terms of more basic information-processing constructs. (Author)