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How Is Reliability Related to the Quality of Test Scores? What Is the Effect of Local Dependence on Reliability?
Author(s) -
Wainer Howard,
Thissen David
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
educational measurement: issues and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1745-3992
pISSN - 0731-1745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3992.1996.tb00803.x
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , reliability engineering , affect (linguistics) , test (biology) , quality (philosophy) , psychology , reading (process) , statistics , computer science , mathematics , engineering , physics , political science , communication , paleontology , power (physics) , quantum mechanics , law , biology
What are the practical implications of small decreases in reliability coefficients? How does increased item local dependence decrease reliability? How does the new format of more “authentic” reading tests affect reliability?