criterion validity predictive validity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics) A criterion validity that refers to the degree to which the operationalization can predict (or correlate with) other measures of the same construct that are measured at some time in the future. With the selection test example, this would mean that the tests are administered to applicants, all applicants are hired, their performance is reviewed at a later time, and then their scores on the two measures are correlated. Yongqun He