Kari's research study measured the effects of cooperative learning on learners' ability to solve complex problems. After scoring the problems and entering the data, her advisor told her she must have another researcher score the problems. Interestingly, the scores she gave the participants did not match the scores that the other researcher gave. Kari's scoring problem is indicative of a problem with

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The fact that Kari's scores did not match the scores of another researcher suggests a problem with inter-rater reliability, which is the degree to which different raters or observers agree in their measurements or judgments of the same phenomena. The other options (internal consistency reliability, content validity, and consequential validity) do not specifically address the issue of different raters or observers giving different scores or measurements.

Kari's Research Study Measured the Effects of Cooperative Learning on Learners