Assume a state’s education authorities have recently establ…
Assume a state’s education authorities have recently established a policy that, in order for students to be promoted to the next grade level, those students must pass a state-supervised English and language arts (ELA) exam. Administered near the close of grades three, six, and eight, the three new grade-level exams are intended to determine a student’s mastery of the official state-approved ELA curricular targets for those three grades. As state authorities set out to provide support for these promotion-denial exams, which one of the following sources of validity evidence are they likely to rely on most heavily?