A language aptitude test is administered to 50 students who are entering an honors French course.After one semester, their scores from the final examination in the French course are correlated with the scores from the language aptitude test.The resulting correlation coefficient would provide what kind of evidence of the test's score validity?
A) Content
B) Test-retest
C) Concurrent
D) Criterion-related

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The correlation coefficient between the language aptitude test scores and the final examination scores in the French course is measuring the extent to which the language aptitude test predicts performance in the French course. This is an example of criterion-related validity, which assesses whether a test is able to predict or correlate with a specific outcome, in this case, success in the French course.

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