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On the Use, the Misuse, and the Very Limited Usefulness of Cronbach’s Alpha

This discussion paper argues that both the use of Cronbach’s alpha as a reliability estimate and as a measure of internal consistency suffer from major problems. First, alpha always has a value, which cannot be equal to the test score’s reliability given the interitem covariance matrix and the usual...

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Autor principal: Sijtsma, Klaas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20037639
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11336-008-9101-0