construct-validity-assessment

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

1. Define the construct (claimed capability) precisely
2. Analyze task requirements — what skills are actually needed to solve examples?
3. Assess content validity — do items representatively sample the construct?
4. Check convergent validity — correlation with other measures of same construct
5. Check discriminant validity — independence from unrelated constructs
6. Identify construct-irrelevant variance (confounds)

Output

Validity verdict with evidence for each validity dimension.