EFFECTS OF NUMBER AND TYPE OF RESPONSE CHOICES ON INTERNAL CONSISTENCY RELIABILITY

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HALPIN, G
HALPIN, G
ARBET, S
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10.2466/pms.1994.79.2.928
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects on Cronbach coefficient alpha, an estimate of internal consistency reliability, of altering the number and type of item-response choices on measures administered to two independent samples (ns, 492 and 730). An increase in the number and type of response choices (from true/false format to four-choice Likert-type format) significantly increased the internal consistency reliability estimate.
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