How can you make your instruments more reliable?

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Firstly, we need to ensure that the quality of questions we ask is high and that all questions are unambiguous. Unambiguous and clear questions are likely to be more reliable, and the same goes for items on a rating scale for observers. Another way to make an instrument more reliable is by measuring it with more than one item. That way any errors that respondents make on an individual item can be cancelled out.

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A criterion-referenced test

a. assesses a student’s intellectual capacity. b. measures a student’s mastery of a specific skill. c. compares a student’s reading progress with that of other children across the nation. d. evaluates a student’s interest in reading.

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(a) Describe the various reading instructional methods, and (b) support why a combination of approaches and various teaching strategies are needed to meet the needs of students with learning problems

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