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Reliability Flashcards

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What is Reliability a measure of?

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Consistency

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Ways of assessing reliability: Test-retest

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• Administering the same test/questionnaire to the same person on different occasions
• If the questionnaire is reliable, then the results should be very similar each time

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Ways of measuring reliability: Inter-observer reliability

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• A small-scale pilot study of the observation in itder to check that observers are applying the behavioural categories in the same way
• Observers watch the same events yet record their data individually

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Measuring reliability

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The two sets of scores are correlated
• To be reliable, the correlation coefficient must exceed +.80

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