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.

Acknowledge the significance of testable predictions in evaluating scientific theories.

Grasp the concept of falsifiability as a criterion for assessing the scientific viability of theories.

Appreciate the importance of simple and consistent assumptions in forming theories.

Understand the importance and concept of replicability in scientific research.

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