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Contextualizing the Interpretation of Reliability Data |
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| Authors: | Paul D Nichols Philip L Smith |
| Institution: | Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PO Box 113, Milwaukee, WI 53251. His specializations are assessment and cognitive science.;Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Educational Psychology, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. His specializations are measurement and statistics. |
| Abstract: | What is the relationship between the context and substantive meaning of a measure and the assessment of the reliability of the measure? Does the interpretation of a reliability coefficient depend on the nature of the measure? How does this approach to reliability relate to alternative assessments? |
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