A comprehensive exam purported to cover an entire semester's work covers only material from the first eight weeks of the course. As a measure of how much students learned overall, this exam lacks
A) reliability.
B) construct validity.
C) content validity.
D) criterion-related validity.

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Content validity refers to the extent to which a test measures all aspects of the concept it intends to cover. Since the exam only covers material from the first eight weeks, it does not fully represent the entire semester's work, thus lacking content validity.

A Comprehensive Exam Purported to Cover an Entire Semester's Work