Reliability

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  • Created by: Byrney27
  • Created on: 15-10-20 20:28

1. What is test-retest?

  • Double checking your answers
  • When your teacher gives you the same test twice
  • administering the same test/ questionnaire to the same person on different occasions and getting the same/ similar results if the test is reliable
  • A test which scores low so you redo it
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2. How to improve reliability

  • Case studies
  • Questionnaires - unambiguous, closed, simple questions, fixed answers. Experiments - strict control, precise replication of method. Observations - behavioural categories, no overlap, no own judgements.
  • Open questions, lying, manipulating data
  • Questionnaires - unambiguous, closed, simple questions, fixed answers. Experiments - strict control, precise replication of method. Observations - overlap, own judgements.

3. What is reliability?

  • How genuinely the results reflect real life
  • Extent to which a test produces consistent findings every time
  • A thing
  • Extent to which a test produces different findings every time

4. What is Inter-observer reliability?

  • Test to find the same results if carried out on another day
  • Closed, simple questions, fixed choice answers
  • observations should be carried out in teams of at least two, should compare their observations
  • A way of studying people

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