Research & evidence · FLIQ Validation Brief v2.0

Where the FLIQ Score™ stands on validity.

The FLIQ Score™ is an emerging measure. It is designed to observe financial decision-making across eight dimensions; it has not yet been validated in the psychometric sense. This page states the current status against the five sources of validity evidence in the AERA/APA/NCME Standards, and the limitations that follow. The full brief is available on request.

Current status

Five sources of evidence. None complete. Two partial.

Test content

The eight domains mirror the Financial Foundations™ curriculum one-to-one and the 2021 national financial-literacy standards. Item-level content review by external educators has not been run.

Partial

Response processes

Scores are read from recorded decisions and stated reasons inside structured scenarios rather than recalled answers. Think-aloud or cognitive-interview studies have not been run.

Partial

Internal structure

The scoring model is specified and reproducible. Reliability (internal consistency, test-retest) and factor structure have not been estimated; a norming sample is required.

Not established

Relations to other variables

No convergent, discriminant, or predictive evidence yet. The first cohorts will be the first data.

Not established

Consequences of use

Guardrails are in force: no grade, no ranking, no placement or selection use, no cross-grade comparison. Evidence of consequences in practice does not yet exist.

Partial

Appropriate use

Program evaluation. Cohort-level pre/post reporting. Instructional planning by domain. Research under a consented design. Adult-facing reports for evaluation, planning, and improvement.

Inappropriate use

Grading a child. Ranking students. Placement, selection, or eligibility decisions. Comparing across grade bands. Reporting a score for a learner without enough observed decisions (that learner is “insufficient evidence”, never a low number).

Known limitations we state first

Baseline and follow-up currently use the same instrument, so familiarity can contribute to movement; alternate forms are on the roadmap. Behavior observed across income levels can encode circumstance as capability; income-stratified norming and measurement-invariance testing are planned. No age norming yet.

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The full brief covers construct definition, the scoring model at the level of structure (not coefficients), fairness, data governance, defined terms, references, and the psychometric roadmap with pre-registered reliability gates. Say who you are and what you are evaluating; we reply within two working days.