Question

If a research study is supposed to investigate why a school has a high student dropout rate, but actually ends up investigating why students choose to remain in school, what can be said about the research?

It lacks face validity.
It lacks face validity.

It lacks confounding validity.
It lacks confounding validity.

It lacks ecological validity.
It lacks ecological validity.

It lacks construct validity.
It lacks construct validity.

It lacks internal validity.

Answer 1

Answer: It lacks ecological validity

Explanation: It measures how test preformance predicts behaviours in the real-world settings and see some dropout if it's to hard or they don't care and others to choose to stay to take a challange or to get a better understanding on what they are doing or learning.

Answer 2

The other person who answered is wrong. It lacks construct validity

Explanation: It didn't measure what it had intended to measure (drop out rates)