Caroline Administers a Scale to a Group of Students and Then

question 38

Multiple Choice

Caroline administers a scale to a group of students and then asks them to complete the scale again a few days later. Which type of reliability is Caroline trying to assess?

• A) test-retest
• B) internal-consistency
• C) inter-judge
• D) convergent

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