{"title":"What questions should a contemporary construct validation of an intelligence test address?","authors":"Robert J. Sternberg","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2026.102003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Construct validations of intelligence tests tend to embrace traditional psychometric theories of intelligence, old methods for validation, and questionable conceptualizations of intelligence as merely lying within the person. A different approach to construct validation views intelligence as a person x task x situation x audience interaction and asks questions that have not always been addressed in previous construct validations, including whether what tests of intelligence have been measuring is really intelligence as adaptive skills over time and place, or really, in any time and place.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 102003"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1000,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Intelligence","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289626000024","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/3/5 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Construct validations of intelligence tests tend to embrace traditional psychometric theories of intelligence, old methods for validation, and questionable conceptualizations of intelligence as merely lying within the person. A different approach to construct validation views intelligence as a person x task x situation x audience interaction and asks questions that have not always been addressed in previous construct validations, including whether what tests of intelligence have been measuring is really intelligence as adaptive skills over time and place, or really, in any time and place.
期刊介绍:
This unique journal in psychology is devoted to publishing original research and theoretical studies and review papers that substantially contribute to the understanding of intelligence. It provides a new source of significant papers in psychometrics, tests and measurement, and all other empirical and theoretical studies in intelligence and mental retardation.