A Nurse Researcher Would Want to Use a Kuder-Richardson (KR-20)

question 32

Multiple Choice

A nurse researcher would want to use a Kuder-Richardson (KR-20) coefficient to establish the internal consistency of an instrument in which case?

• A) When questions are open-ended
• B) When multiple choice tests are analyzed
• C) When the instrument uses a Likert-type response scale
• D) When the instrument is designed to measure more than one concept

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