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Fu, Yuanshu; Wen, Zhonglin; Wang, Yang – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
The maximal reliability of a congeneric measure is achieved by weighting item scores to form the optimal linear combination as the total score; it is never lower than the composite reliability of the measure when measurement errors are uncorrelated. The statistical method that renders maximal reliability would also lead to maximal criterion…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Comparative Analysis, Attitude Measures
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Ang, Rebecca P.; Huan, Vivien S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
This article describes the development and initial validation of obtained scores from the Academic Expectations Stress Inventory (AESI), which measures expectations as a source of academic stress in middle and high school Asian students. In the first study, exploratory factor analysis results from 721 adolescents suggested a nine-item scale with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Test Validity