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Sacrificing Reliability and Exalting Sampling Error at the Altar of Parsimony: Some Cautions Concerning Short-Form Test Development.
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Henson, Robin K. – 2000
The purpose of this paper is to highlight some psychometric cautions that should be observed when seeking to develop short form versions of tests. Several points are made: (1) score reliability is impacted directly by the characteristics of the sample and testing conditions; (2) sampling error has a direct influence on reliability and factor…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Psychometrics, Reliability, Sampling