Performance Validity
Definition
Whether observed performance supports its intended interpretation as evidence of ability.
Related terms
- Adaptive Functioning
- Conceptual, social and practical functioning in relevant everyday contexts.
- Alternative Explanation
- A competing account of a finding that should be evaluated against the available evidence.
- Chance Expectation
- The mean result under a specified random-response model; it is not a significance threshold.
- Developmental Onset
- Evidence that relevant limitations originated during the developmental period under the named framework.
- Flynn Effect
- Population-level changes in measured cognitive performance across cohorts or periods; magnitude and direction vary.
- Intellectual Functioning
- Abilities such as reasoning, learning and problem-solving, evaluated with appropriate clinical and standardised methods.
- Malingering
- Intentional fabrication or substantial exaggeration of symptoms for an external incentive.
- Measurement Uncertainty
- The range around a reported value within which the true quantity plausibly lies, derived from instrument precision, calibration standards, replicate variability, and...
- Screening
- A preliminary assessment used to identify a need for further inquiry rather than establish a final classification.
- Symptom-Report Validity
- Whether reported symptoms support the intended interpretation, considering response patterns and context.
Explained in these topics
- Intelligence and Cognitive Assessment in Forensic Context
- Malingering and Response-Style DetectionWhether observed task performance supports the intended interpretation of ability.