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Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Daniel, Larry G. – 2000
The purposes of this paper are to identify common errors made by researchers when dealing with reliability coefficients and to outline best practices for reporting and interpreting reliability coefficients. Common errors that researchers make are: (1) stating that the instruments are reliable; (2) incorrectly interpreting correlation coefficients;…
Descriptors: Correlation, Generalization, Reliability, Research Methodology
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Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Daniel, Larry G. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2002
This article provides a framework for reporting internal consistency reliability in counseling research and other related social science fields, including guidelines relative to score reliability coefficients and associated confidence intervals for both full sample and subgroups. Follow-up techniques for investigating low score reliability are…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Psychometrics, Reliability, Research Methodology
Witta, E. Lea; Daniel, Larry G. – 1998
In 1994, the journal "Educational and Psychological Measurement" (EPM) instituted an editorial policy requiring authors to use technically appropriate language and methodological practices in their discussions of validity and reliability. To determine if this policy has had any effect on current publications, 150 validity and reliability…
Descriptors: Editing, Editorials, Educational Research, Reliability
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Thompson, Bruce; Daniel, Larry G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1996
Editorial board members of "Educational and Psychological Measurement" were asked to list up to five publications each, written since roughly 1950, that they thought were seminal to shaping the measurement field. This bibliography lists 59 of their selections as a "hit parade" of measurement readings. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Measurement Techniques, Psychometrics, Reliability
Daniel, Larry G. – 1989
The purpose of the present study was to determine how two different data collection techniques would affect the Q-factors derived from several factor analytic procedures. Faculty members (N=146) from seven middle schools responded to 61 items taken from an instrument designed to measure aspects of an idealized middle school culture; the instrument…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Factor Analysis, Junior High Schools
Eason, Sandra H.; Daniel, Larry G. – 1989
A framework for understanding methodological practices from the perspectives of internal validity, external validity, statistical control validity, and construct validity is presented. One hundred doctoral dissertations completed between 1980 and 1988 at a single urban public university were analyzed for various methodological practices and types…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cohort Analysis, Construct Validity, Doctoral Dissertations