Define what researchers mean by reliability. Then define the four possible methods for achieving it.
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A measure is reliable when it yields consistent scores or observations of a given phenomenon on different occasions.
Test-retest reliability: A measurement showing that measures of a phenomenon at two points in time are highly correlated, if the phenomenon has not changed, or have changed only as much as the phenomenon itself.
Interitem reliability: An approach that calculates reliability based on the correlation among multiple items used to measure a single concept.
Alternate-forms reliability: A procedure for testing the reliability of responses to survey questions in which subjects' answers are compared after the subjects have been asked slightly different versions of the questions or when randomly selected halves of the sample have been administered slightly different versions of the questions.
Intraobserver reliability (intrarater reliability): Consistency of ratings by an observer of an unchanging phenomenon at two or more points in time.
Interobserver reliability: When similar measurements are obtained by different observers rating the same persons, events, or places.
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