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karen

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Compare and contrast the purpose of content and criterion validity.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The risk factor most closely associated with family stress and highly correlated with school failure is:
 
  A. homelessness.
  B. parental depression.
  C. poverty.
  D. neighborhood violence.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 30, 2018
Answer to Question 1

 Content validity: The purpose is to determine through expert opinion whether the items of a test or inventory represent the content domain of characteristics being measured.
 Criterion validity: The purpose is to determine the degree to which test scores predict success on an outcome criteria by relating an individual's score to a normative group.

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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