| name | construct-validity-assessment |
| description | Evaluate whether benchmark measures its claimed capability |
| execution | subagent |
| prompt | ./prompt.md |
| input | benchmark_name, claimed_capability, task_examples |
| used-by | benchmark-archaeology |
Construct Validity Assessment SOP
Evaluate whether a benchmark actually measures the capability it claims to measure, using psychometric validity frameworks adapted for AI evaluation.
Input
- benchmark_name: Name of the benchmark
- claimed_capability: What the benchmark authors claim it measures
- task_examples: Representative examples from the benchmark
Procedure
- Define the construct (claimed capability) precisely
- Analyze task requirements — what skills are actually needed to solve examples?
- Assess content validity — do items representatively sample the construct?
- Check convergent validity — correlation with other measures of same construct
- Check discriminant validity — independence from unrelated constructs
- Identify construct-irrelevant variance (confounds)
Output
Validity verdict with evidence for each validity dimension.