Identify the threats to internal validity illustrated in the examples below. Students falling below the 10th percentile on a reading achievement test later receive higher scores on a similar test; students above the 90th percentile receive lower scores on the second test administration

a. experimental mortality
b. reactive effect of testing
c. statistical regression
d. maturation
e. instrumentation


C

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