Patrick Meyer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195380361
- eISBN:
- 9780199847914
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380361.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This is a book in the Understanding Statistics series, which is designed to provide guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. Each book in the series ...
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This is a book in the Understanding Statistics series, which is designed to provide guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. Each book in the series demonstrates how the relevant topic should be reported—including detail surrounding what can be said, and how it should be said, as well as drawing boundaries around what cannot appropriately be claimed or inferred. This volume addresses reliability, which is a fundamental aspect of any social science study that involves educational or psychological measurement. It not only has implications for the quality of test scores themselves, but also any statistical analysis conducted using those scores. Topics addressed in this book cover three different types of reliability methods and appropriate standard errors of measurement: classical test theory methods, decision consistency indices, and generalizability theory coefficients. After a brief introduction to the topic, the book outlines how to report reliability in professional journal articles. It includes examples of both good and bad write-ups for methods sections of journal articles.Less
This is a book in the Understanding Statistics series, which is designed to provide guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. Each book in the series demonstrates how the relevant topic should be reported—including detail surrounding what can be said, and how it should be said, as well as drawing boundaries around what cannot appropriately be claimed or inferred. This volume addresses reliability, which is a fundamental aspect of any social science study that involves educational or psychological measurement. It not only has implications for the quality of test scores themselves, but also any statistical analysis conducted using those scores. Topics addressed in this book cover three different types of reliability methods and appropriate standard errors of measurement: classical test theory methods, decision consistency indices, and generalizability theory coefficients. After a brief introduction to the topic, the book outlines how to report reliability in professional journal articles. It includes examples of both good and bad write-ups for methods sections of journal articles.
