Dr.Iverson has had 25 students who have repeated her advanced Economics class over the past five years.Each time,the students' grades for the second attempt in her course were nearly identical to the grades received on the first attempt.This leads Dr.Iverson to conclude that her testing procedures
A) provide valid measures of student ability.
B) are well standardized.
C) provide reliable measures of student ability.
D) successfully measures abstract reasoning skills.

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The fact that the students' grades on the second attempt were nearly identical to their grades on the first attempt suggests that the testing procedures are reliable, meaning that they produce consistent results over time. This does not necessarily indicate that the tests are valid (i.e. actually measuring what they are intended to measure), well standardized (i.e. administered and scored consistently across all students), or measuring abstract reasoning skills specifically.

DrIverson Has Had 25 Students Who Have Repeated Her Advanced