An Employment Test Required a High Level of Reading Proficiency

question 118

Multiple Choice

An employment test required a high level of reading proficiency, although the job itself did not require high level reading skills.Persons who did not do well on the test had no chance of getting the job.The score validity of this test was negatively impacted by

• A) construct underrepresentation.
• B) construct-irrelevant variance.
• C) construct convergence.
• D) construct divergence.

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