Brenda is developing a test to identify children who are likely to become "school refusers" (i.e. ,they refuse to attend school).She wants to be certain that her test accurately measures enduring tendencies in the children,so she administers it on two occasions,several weeks apart.Brenda is concerned about the test's ____.
A)face validity
B)consequential validity
C)test-retest reliability
D)split-half reliability

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Brenda's concern about the test measuring enduring tendencies suggests that she is interested in its reliability over time. Test-retest reliability is the extent to which the same test yields consistent results when administered on two or more occasions. This would be the best choice in this scenario. A and B are not relevant to Brenda's concern, and D is a measure of internal consistency rather than reliability over time.

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