Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Cronbach's Alpha Reliability Test

The Cronbach's Alpha Reliability Test measures the internal consistency or the internal consistency reliability of a questionnaire through the calculation of Cronbach's alpha (α)coefficient.


Cronbach's alpha will generally increase when the correlations between the items increase.

α can take values between negative infinity and 1. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α coefficient of 0.7 or higher (obtained on a substantial scale) indicates a high level of reliability of the ‘translated’ questionnaire.

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