How does the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing conceptualize validity?
a. Validity is a non-statistical measure for non-quantitative tests.
b. Validity should only be assessed when reliability is low.
c. Validity is a unitary concept that represents all evidence.
d. Only one type of validity must be high and the others can be low.
c
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