Author Question: The main difference between the parallel forms and split-half techniques for assessing reliability ... (Read 71 times)

bclement10 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

The main difference between the parallel forms and split-half techniques for assessing reliability is that

a. the parallel forms techniques involves testing participants on two separate occasions and the split half technique does not.
b. items are arbitrarily divided for comparison in the parallel forms procedure but this is not true for the split half technique.
c. a high positive correlation between scores reflects good reliability for the parallel forms procedure but a high negative correlation is indicative of good reliability for the split half procedure.
d. split half correlations reflect stability whereas parallel forms correlations do not.

Question 2

One advantage of Likert-type rating scale questions is that they produce numerical scores that can be evaluated with standard statistical methods such as computing means.

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false