Hakeem Developed an Attitudes About the Importance of Green Space

question 33

Multiple Choice

Hakeem developed an attitudes about the importance of green space on campus. The measure was five items long and he administered it to twenty five people in his pilot study. He conducted a reliability analysis of the scale and found it to be quite low (.25) . Given he needs to have a reliability estimate of .80 to appease his dissertation committee, which of the following would you suggest to Hakeem?

• A) Administer the pilot to more people and do the analysis again.
• B) Lengthen the scale and send it out without another pilot.
• C) Lengthen the scale and conduct another pilot to see if it goes up.
• D) Reduce the number of items to two or three to increase reliability.

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