Misuses of kr-20 and cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients

Egitim ve Bilim

Volumn 34, Issue 152, 2009, Pages 101-112

  Tan, Seref ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alpha reliability coefficient; Coefficient theta; KR 20; Misuses of internal consistency estimations; Stratified alpha coefficient

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EID: 77956315719     PISSN: 13001337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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