A Researcher Develops a 20-Question Test to Measure Anxiety and Administers

question 1

Multiple Choice

A researcher develops a 20-question test to measure anxiety and administers it to a group of participants. To evaluate the reliability of the test, the researcher computes a score for the first 10 questions and a score for the last 10 questions for each participant and then computes the correlation between the two scores. What is the researcher measuring?

• A) split-half reliability
• B) internal reliability
• C) test-retest reliability
• D) inter-rater reliability

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