Dr. Gates wishes to measure his students’ performance in statistics during the spring semester. To do this, he includes questions from all lectures so that a broad coverage of the material covered during the semester may be assessed. It is clear that Dr. Gates is interested in establishing what type of validity?
a. content validity
b. face validity
c. construct validity
d. criterion validity
Ans: A
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