A Team of Researchers Designed a 20-Question Likert Scale to Measure

question 25

Multiple Choice

A team of researchers designed a 20-question Likert scale to measure attitudes on immigration.They administered the survey to 100 participants.Which of the following techniques could they use to assess the reliability of their scale?

• A)Administer the same survey to 100 different participants six months later, and compare the first results with the second results
• B)Administer the same survey to the same 100 participants six months later, and compare the first results with the second results
• C)Randomly divide the scale into two groups of ten, calculate a score or each respondent on each group of ten, and compute a correlation between the two scores
• D)Both B and C

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