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Arnold, Margery E. – Research in the Schools, 1996
This paper explains how different factors affect classical reliability estimates, such as test-retest, interrater, internal consistency, and equivalent forms coefficients. The limitations of classical test theory are explored, and the advantages of generalizability theory are discussed. Concrete examples are used. (SLD)
Descriptors: Estimation (Mathematics), Generalizability Theory, Reliability, Test Theory