A type of threat to internal validity referring to the effect that taking a test may have on subsequent administrations of the test. Individual performance on a specific item may be impacted by repeated testing due to practice, or researcher expectations, ultimately influencing the study outcome in unintended ways that cannot be controlled by the researcher.
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