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Which of the following is FALSE?
 a. Content validity is most directly concerned with the question of what the instrument is measuring, i.e., what construct underlies its performance.
  b. Construct validity cannot truly be established without evidence of convergent and discriminant validity.
  c. The content validity of a measure focuses on the adequacy with which the domain of the characteristic is captured by the measure.
  d. Both a and b.
  e. a, b, and c.

Question 2

Convergent validity is
 a. demonstrated by showing how well the content of the test samples the subject matter.
  b. demonstrated by correlating independent measures of the same construct.
  c. demonstrated by the goodness of the predictions made with the measure.
  d. demonstrated by the stability in scores exhibited by the measure.
  e. never demonstrated.



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b



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