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Ronda would like to assess the effects of a reading comprehension course on the scores of students. She gives a group of remedial students a reading comprehension pretest and then randomly assigns them to either the treatment group or the control group. Shortly after the treatment, she measures their reading comprehension scores again.
-Suppose Ronda finds that more people dropped out of the treatment group than the control group. Ronda might be worried about which threat to internal validity?
A) Instrumentation
B) Experimental mortality
C) Statistical regression
D) Testing

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Experimental mortality refers to the differential loss of participants from the treatment and control groups, which can affect the internal validity of the study.

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