An instructor announces that an examination will cover the topics of reliability and validity.Malcolm boasts that he will read and study only the material on reliability.As it turns out,all of the test questions are only on the topic of reliability.The MOST reasonable conclusion a student of assessment could draw from this is that

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The fact that all of the test questions were only on the topic of reliability suggests that the examination lacked content validity, as it did not measure knowledge in both reliability and validity. If the exam had both topics but only tested on reliability, it would still have content validity. Criterion-related validity refers to the ability of the test to predict or correlate with an external criterion, and face validity refers to whether the test appears to measure what it claims to measure, neither of which are relevant in this scenario. Knowing Malcolm's study habits is not relevant to the validity of the exam.

An Instructor Announces That an Examination Will Cover the Topics