APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Reliability in Practice—Moving Beyond Cronbach’s Alpha

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Methodology

Session: Poster Session XVII

Authors

Abstract

While researchers commonly use Cronbach’s alpha to estimate data reliability, research suggests that this approach is not appropriate in all contexts. Use of latent variable modeling for reliability estimation continues to gain traction because of its ability to relax the strict assumptions of alpha and provide more-accurate reliability estimates.

Quantitative