A Validity Coefficient Is

question 32

Multiple Choice

A validity coefficient is

• A)the correlation between a test and the validity criterion.
• B)the squared correlation between the test and the validity criterion.
• C)the square root of the correlation between the test and the validity criterion.
• D)one minus the correlation between a test and the validity criterion.

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