Solved

Elliot Works with Autistic Children and Has Developed a New

question 4

Multiple Choice

Elliot works with autistic children and has developed a new app he thinks will improve their ability to track a conversation. He uses the app with the clients he works with at a private school for children with autism. He compare these children's performance in a conversation with peers to the performance of autistic children in the public school who have not used the app. Although Elliot notes that the children who used the app did have better conversational-tracking skills, the fact that they also had access to a higher-quality educational setting than their comparison group threatens the _____ validity of Elliot's conclusions.

Definitions:

Ideal Future

A vision or conceptualization of a perfect scenario or state that an individual, group, or society aims to achieve, often used as a motivational tool.

Operational Planning

The process of planning strategic goals and objectives to tactical goals and objectives. It describes milestones, conditions for success, and explains how, or what portion of, a strategic plan will be put into operation during a given operational period.

Strategic Plan

A systematic process of envisioning a desired future and translating this vision into broadly defined goals and a sequence of steps to achieve them.

Strategic Management

The process by which an organization's leaders develop and implement plans to achieve specific goals and objectives over the long term, taking into account both internal and external environments.