A Test Intended to Measure Reading Ability Contains Many Items

Multiple Choice

A test intended to measure reading ability contains many items about public transportation systems. Rural children are not very familiar with such systems, hence score low on the test. In the terminology of validity, knowledge of public transportation systems in this instance is contributing ________.

A) Unreliable variance
B) Construct irrelevant variance
C) Construct under-representation
D) Internal inconsistency