At 04:26 PM 4/17/00 -0500, Paul R Swank wrote:
>I disagree with the statement that the split-half reliability coefficient
>is of no use anymore. Coefficient alpha, while being an excellent estimator
>of reliability, does have one rather stringent requirement. The items must
>be homogeneous.
i don't ever seem to recall the coefficient alpha .. REQUIRES homogeneous
content ... but rather, the SIZE of it will be impacted BY item homogeneity
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