Akon and Eda were enrolled in different sections of the same English course. When Akon was taking his final exam in the course, there was some construction going on outside the room where the exam was held. It was noisy and Akon found it difficult to concentrate. Eda wrote her final in the evening, and the building was quiet, with no distractions. In this example, the administration of the
English final:
a. did not have high test-retest reliability
b. did not have construct validity
c. was not standardized across the course sections
d. would have high predictive validity
C
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