An exclusive preschool program has strict enrollment criteria and only accepts children with very high marks on the enrollment test. Unfortunately, they have found that the enrollment test does not correlate highly with the grades the children make. The probable reason is

a. predictor/criterion confusion.
b. an invalid criterion.
c. convergent evidence.
d. range restriction.


d

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