Your friend Dominic is complaining about having to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), a test that is required to go to graduate school and is similar to the ACT and SAT. He complains, "Tests like the GRE don't really measure how well people actually do in graduate school." Dominic is questioning the of the test.
A)discriminant validity
B)content validity
C)convergent validity
D)criterion validity

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Criterion validity refers to the extent to which a test correlates with an external criterion, in this case, how well someone will do in graduate school. Therefore, Dominic's complaint is related to the criterion validity of the GRE.

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