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    Gail complains that her history was unfair and "did not cover the material!" She is complaining that the tests lacks

    a. Reliability
    b. External validity
    c. Content validity
    d. Power

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    Answer: c. Content validity

    Content validity is established by showing that the test items are a sample of a universe in which the investigator is interested (i.e., history course). Content validity is ordinarily to be established deductively, by defining a universe of items (defining test items for the entire history course content)and sampling systematically (i.e., distributing an equal number of items per unit)within this universe to establish the ...

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