A new assessment tool does a good job of differentiating those who later will be depressed and those who will not be depressed, and it produces results similar to those of other tools measuring depression. Therefore, the new assessment tool has good:

Predictive validity

Explanation: Predictive validity shows the extent to which a score on a scale predicts scores on some criterion measure. For example, the validity of a cognitive test for job performance is the correlation between test scores and the performance rating of the supervisor.There are four types of validity, they are face, construct, content, and predictive validity inclusive.