Professor West created a new test of intelligence. After administering the test to a group of students, he asked their teachers to rate each student in terms of how smart they thought the students were. The scores on his test did not correlate with the teacher ratings very well at all. This new test suffers from
A)criterion-related validity
B)content validity
C)construct validity
D)lack of internal consistency
E)lack of reliability

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Criterion-related validity is concerned with how well a test correlates with a relevant outcome measure, in this case, the teacher ratings of intelligence. Since Professor West's test scores did not correlate well with the teacher ratings, the test suffers from a lack of criterion-related validity.

Professor West Created a New Test of Intelligence