A study examining college students' attitudes toward tuition increases would demonstrate external validity among college students by
A) sampling only students enrolled at colleges that have not raised tuition.
B) lowering tuition one semester and raising tuition the next semester.
C) finding a difference in attitudes between students who have experienced tuition increases and students who have not experienced tuition increases.
D) showing the results generalize to college students from other colleges.

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External validity refers to the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other settings, populations, or time periods. Option D, showing that the results generalize to college students from other colleges, directly addresses this by indicating that the findings are not limited to the specific group of students studied but can be applied to college students more broadly.

A Study Examining College Students' Attitudes Toward Tuition Increases Would