Face validity is ______________
a. a type of measurement validity in which an indicator makes sense as a measure of a construct in the judgment of others, especially in the scientific community
b. measurement validity that requires that a measure represent all the aspects of the conceptual definition of a construct
c. measurement validity that relies on some independent outside verification
d. a type of measurement validity that use multiple indicators and has two indicators and
has two subtypes: how well indicators of one construct converge and how well
indicators of different constructs diverge
A
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a. Supreme Judicial Court b. Supreme Court c. Court of Appeals d. All of the above
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A. evidence procedural model B. crime control model C. processing model D. due process model
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a. True b. False