To Select the Most Discriminating Items for a Likert-Type Attitude

question 27

Multiple Choice

To select the most discriminating items for a Likert-type attitude scale, one would administer the items to a pilot group and then calculate the correlations between

• A) item scores and total scores.
• B) scores on the odd and even items.
• C) scores on the positively stated and the negatively stated items.
• D) scores on the scale and scores on criterion measuring the same attitudes.

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