Testing the Internal Consistency of the Questions in a Survey

question 5

Multiple Choice

Testing the internal consistency of the questions in a survey is a measure of its

• A) instrument bias
• B) validity
• C) reliability
• D) sufficiency
• E) none of the above

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Definitions:

Chi-Square Test

A statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant association between two categorical variables.

Independence

A concept in probability and statistics indicating that two events or variables have no association or influence on each other.

Categorical Variables

Variables that represent categories and can take on a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or in the calculation of a statistic, typically in the context of parameter estimation.