EPSY 5601 Summer Day 3 Outline

  • Instrument Reliability
    • Test Retest
    • Equivalent (Alternate or Parallel) Form
    • Scoring Agreement
      • Interrater
      • Percentage of Agreement
    • Internal Consistency
      • Split-Half
      • Kuder-Richardson 20
      • Kuder-Richardson 21 (questions are of equal difficulty)
      • Cronbach’s Alpha
  • Instrument Validity
    • Content (Face)
    • Criterion Related
      • Predictive
      • Concurrent
    • Construct
      • Factor Analysis
      • Convergent/Discriminant
  • Obtained Score = True Score + Error (test taker, test, testing condition, scoring)
  • Excel Reliability Calculator
  • Relationship between instrument reliability and validity
  • Likert Scales
  • Content Analysis
    • Sampling Plan
    • Definition of Term
  • Action Research
    • Emily Calhoun’s Action Research Cycle
    • Ernest Stringer’s Action Research Interacting Spiral
    • Dialectic Action Research Spiral