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Alternate-Form Reliability. Quintin Molina AED 615 – October 23, 2006. Alternate Form Reliability. The degree to which two or more versions of the same test correlate with one another.
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Alternate-Form Reliability Quintin Molina AED 615 – October 23, 2006
Alternate Form Reliability • The degree to which two or more versions of the same test correlate with one another. • Process – a given function is tested more than once over time and it is important to have more than one version of a given instrument and to show that these different versions are reasonably equivalent. • (www.nationalmssociety.org/MUCS_glossary1.asp)
Example of Alternate-Form Reliability • If memory is tested through the learning of a list of words, follow-up testing should use a different list of words of equivalent difficulty. • If the same list of words were used on the second testing, scores would be inflated due to the subject’s prior knowledge of the words. • (www.nationalmssociety.org/MUCS_glossary1.asp)
AFR - Value to Survey Research • The correlation of scores on pairs of alternate forms for the same examinees provides another measure of consistency or reliability. • www.ericdigests.org/2002-2/reliability.htm
Qualitative Usefulness • Heavily favored in the qualitative based studies due to the fact that it lends itself neatly to the measure of consistency.
JAE Article • Journal of Agricultural Education Article
Bibliography • www.nationalmssociety.org/MUCS_glossary1.asp • www.ericdigests.org/2002-2/reliability.htm • VanLeeuwen, D.M., Dormody, T.J., Seevers, B.S.(1999). Assessing the reliability of student evaluation of teaching (sets) with generalizability theory. Journal of Agricultural Education, 40(4), 1-9.