Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.
This is a term used in psychological assessment to cover concepts which integrate existing knowledge about certain contexts, usually in the form of personality or competency constructs.
The concept or the characteristic that a test is designed to measure. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education. (1999). Standards for educational and psychological testing. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association, p. 173.
An entity inferred by a scientist to explain observed phenomena. See also mediator.
A characteristic or trait of individuals inferred from empirical evidence (e.g., numerical ability).
A general idea that tries to explain something; for example, social status is a construct.
A concept that describes and includes a number of characteristics or attributes. The concepts are often unobservable ideas or abstractions.
An informed, scientific idea developed or generated to describe or explain behavior; some examples of constructs include "intelligence," "personality," "anxiety," and "job satisfaction," 14, 173
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts; "construct a proof"; "construct an argument"
a marketing term or concept that is somehow involved in the marketing management problem that will be researched
an abstraction, a theoretical concept
an idea, something that is made up to describe, define or better identify a group of things, in this case a group of symptoms and behaviors
an intangible characteristic
an intangible, unobserved trait such as intelligence which explains behavior
a theoretical entity, a working, operational hypothesis that strives to give us a meaningful understanding of some studied phenomena
a theoretical idea such as a state like anxiety
a theoretical variable inferred from multiple types of evidence, which may include the interrelations of the test scores with other variables, internal test structure, or observations of response processes, as well as the content of the test
a theory or concept used to explain data hi an orderly way
a word that we compose of words which we have a concept of
a term used to describe an intangible idea that has been constructed for scientific purposes, such as 'motivation,' or 'customer satisfaction.'
(a) Something that exists theoretically but is not directly observable. (b) A concept developed (constructed) for describing relations among phenomena or for other research purposes. (c) A theoretical definition in which concepts are defined in terms of other concepts. For example, intelligence cannot be directly observed or measured; it is a construct.
the meaning that is formed when pieces of information are 'constructed' to form a concept. In driver assessment, examples of concepts are safe driving and hazard perception.