The Effects of the Number of Scale Points and Non-Normality on the Generalizability Coefficient: A Monte Carlo Study.

Autor:	Shumate, StevenR., Surles, James, Johnson, RobertL., Penny, Jim
Předmět:	RESEARCH SCALES (Weighing instruments) STATISTICAL correlation MONTE Carlo method EVALUATION PERFORMANCE RUBRICATION (Illuminated manuscripts) INFORMATIONS (Criminal procedure) ESTIMATES
Zdroj:	Applied Measurement in Education; 2007, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p357-376, 20p, 6 Charts, 1 Graph
Abstrakt:	Increasingly, assessment practitioners use generalizability coefficients to estimate the reliability of scores from performance tasks. Little research, however, examines the relation between the estimation of generalizability coefficients and the number of rubric scale points and score distributions. The purpose of the present research is to inform assessment practitioners of (a) the optimum number of scale points necessary to achieve the best estimates of generalizability coefficients and (b) the possible biases of generalizability coefficients when the distribution of scores is non-normal. Results from this study indicate that the number of scale points substantially affects the generalizability estimates. Generalizability estimates increase as scale points increase, with little bias after scales reach 12 points. Score distributions had little effect on generalizability estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	Complementary Index
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