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Common Items and Reliability in Personality Measurement.
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Farley, Frank H.; Cohen, Arie – Journal of Research in Personality, 1980
Most psychological tests and inventories, particularly in personality and attitude measurement, contain common items. The present report specifically considered common-item contributions to test internal consistency reliability using extant data from the California Psychological Inventory. No negative contribution of item overlap was found.…
Descriptors: College Students, Item Analysis, Personality Measures, Psychological Testing
Improving Reliability and Validity of "Achievement via Conformance" Through Computer Applications.
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Riggs, Donald E. – 1971
This paper describes an experiment conducted in order to improve the reliability and validity of the Achievement via Conformance (AC) scale of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI). The primary goal of AC is to identify those factors of interest and motivation which facilitate achievement in any setting where conformance is positive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conformity, Evaluation Methods, Grade Point Average