Coefficients alpha, beta, omega, and the glb: comments on Sijtsma

DOI10.1007/S11336-008-9102-ZMaRDI QIDQ1013064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William Revelle, Richard E. Zinbarg

Publication date 16 April 2009

Published in Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-008-9102-z

zbMATH Keywords

coefficient alphacoefficient betacoefficient omegahomogeneityinternal consistencyreliabilitytest theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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• Part II: On the use, the misuse, and the very limited usefulness of Cronbach's alpha: discussing lower bounds and correlated errors
• Alpha, FACTT, and beyond
• Coefficients alpha and reliabilities of unrotated and rotated components
• The greatest lower bound to the reliability of a test and the hypothesis of unidimensionality
• Cronbach's \(\alpha\), Revelle's \(\beta\), and McDonald's \(\omega_h\): their relations with each other and two alternative conceptualizations of reliability
• Quantile lower bounds to reliability based on locally optimal splits
• Some relationships between Cronbach's alpha and the Spearman-Brown formula
• Internal consistency of tests: Analyses old and new
• McDonald's _t, Cronbach's , and generalized for composite reliability of common factors structures
• Proof of reliability convergence to 1 at rate of spearman-Brown formula for random test forms and irrespective of item pool dimensionality

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