Imagine that a research methods instructor accidentally includes concepts on an exam that he did not actually cover in the course. This is a problem with which of the following?

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This is a problem with the exam's content validity, which refers to whether the exam adequately covers and assesses the material that was taught in the course. If the exam includes concepts that were not covered in the course, then it does not have content validity. Face validity refers to whether the exam appears to measure what it is intended to measure, discriminant validity refers to whether the exam can distinguish between different constructs or concepts, and criterion validity refers to whether the exam is predictive of or correlated with some other established measure or criterion.

Imagine That a Research Methods Instructor Accidentally Includes Concepts on an Exam