construct-validity-assessment

Research

Evaluate whether benchmark measures its claimed capability

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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.

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
spawn-agent	Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. Used by SOPs that declare execution: subagent.