Lauren Validated Her Selection Battery and Found a Validity Coefficient

question 105

Multiple Choice

Lauren validated her selection battery and found a validity coefficient of .74. Later, her selection battery yielded a validity coefficient of .67 when she used a different sample of participants. This drop in the validity coefficient is an example of:

• A)validity generalization.
• B)cross-invalidation.
• C)validity shrinkage.
• D)regression to the mean.

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