Students' performance in school (e.g. ,GPA)reflects their mastery of relevant course material.However,their GPA may also reflect whether they were sick or had outside distractions.To the extent that GPA,as a measure of performance,captures things other than mastery of course material,we say that GPA has:

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Criterion contamination refers to the extent to which a measure is affected by factors unrelated to the construct being measured. In this case, GPA may be contaminated by factors such as illness or outside distractions, which do not reflect the student's mastery of course material. Therefore, criterion contamination is the best choice.

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