Which describes intra-rater consistency?

• A. Inter-rater consistency
• B. Internal consistency reliability
• C. Intra-rater consistency
• D. Content validity

Answer: (C)

Intra-rater consistency means the same person scores or rates the same behavior, performance, or response in the same way across multiple occasions. It’s about the stability of one evaluator’s judgments over time. If a clinician reviews the same video or sample more than once, high intra-rater reliability would show that their scores are similar on each occasion, indicating the rater is applying the scoring criteria consistently rather than being swayed by momentary bias or random fluctuation. This is different from having multiple raters agree (that would be inter-rater consistency), from how well items on a test hang together (internal consistency reliability), or from whether the test covers the right content (content validity). So the description you’re looking for is the idea that a single rater remains steady in their scoring across repeated assessments.