A Researcher Creates a Scale to Measure Students' Satisfaction with Their

question 7

Multiple Choice

A researcher creates a scale to measure students' satisfaction with their sociology courses.After identifying six key questions and organizing them into a composite measure,the researcher averages the six items into a variable called "sociology satisfaction." The Cronbach's alpha score was 0.8,which means the

• A)measure is unreliable.
• B)items on the scale do not predict each other.
• C)scale items are all measuring some aspect of satisfaction with sociology courses.
• D)researchers should try to adjust the scale so that the Cronbach's alpha is closer to 1.

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