Content validation Multiple Choice seeks to establish an empirical relationship between test scores taken prior to being hired and eventual performance on the job. is an estimate of whether a test appears to measure a certain criterion is performed by demonstrating that the questions or problems posed by a test are a representative sample of the kinds of situations or problems that occur on the job. assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and then correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance is the degree to which a measure is free from internal defects of standardization