My Current Thoughts on Coefficient Alpha and Successor Procedures

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 391-418

  Cronbach, Lee J ^a   Shavelson, Richard J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coefficient alpha; generalizability theory; internal consistency; reliability; variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993790580     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164404266386     Document Type: Article

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