C. 78% of the variance on the test is error O d. the test can be used for clinic

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C. 78% of the variance on the test is error O d. the test can be used for clinical purposes but not for research. QUESTION 43 A student confronts a professor and says, "You assigned Chapters 7 through 10 but nearly all of the items came from Chapter 7. How can you evaluate whether O a face validity O b. content validity O c. criterion validity O d. construct validity we know anything about the other material we were supposed to read?" The student is challenging the test on the basis of QUESTION 44

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There are different kinds of validity tests which are conducted to asses whether the test measures what it is supposed to test. Here in this situation the professor, to find the validity he might have prefered to use content validity basis to find the students knowledge because the professor might have constructed the question that it covers all the important topics on all those chapters.

Face validity is used basically in psychological assesment tests.

Content validity is a logical validity, it occur when the experiment covers all adequate subject information studied.

Criterion validity , it measures the criterion ability which is already assigned.

Construct validity is used to find the theoretical formation of cause and effect relationship which represents the real world situation.

the professor might have given the test on the basis of content validity.

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