ERIC Number: EJ746324
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Publication Date: 2006-Sep
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Meta-Analysis of Coefficient Alpha
Rodriguez, Michael C.; Maeda, Yukiko
Psychological Methods, v11 n3 p306-322 Sep 2006
The meta-analysis of coefficient alpha across many studies is becoming more common in psychology by a methodology labeled reliability generalization. Existing reliability generalization studies have not used the sampling distribution of coefficient alpha for precision weighting and other common meta-analytic procedures. A framework is provided for a statistically grounded meta-analysis of coefficient alpha using its sampling distribution. Two empirical examples are offered to illustrate these methods, and limitations of reliability generalization are described.
Descriptors: Generalization, Sampling, Reliability, Meta Analysis, Psychology, Statistical Distributions
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