A private academy that tutors children with learning disabilities wanted to know if empathetic and compassionate teachers would be better able to teach its students. The private academy could use _____ to determine if strong levels of empathy and compassion would positively affect future job behavior.

A) content validation
B) validity generalization
C) criterion-related validation
D) job-analysis-derived validation
E) context validation

Criterion-related validation would be the best choice for the private academy to determine if strong levels of empathy and compassion would positively affect future job behavior. This type of validation involves correlating an employee's performance on a particular criterion (in this case, successful teaching of students with learning disabilities) with their scores on a predictor measure (such as a test of empathy and compassion). By examining the relationship between the two variables, the academy can determine if there is a valid relationship between empathy/compassion and effective teaching.