Internal Consistency

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2013

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Faculty Survey of Student Engagement

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https://hdl.handle.net/2022/24497

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One way to estimate reliability, specifically the internal consistency, of FSSE results is by calculating Cronbach’s alphas and intercorrelations for the FSSE scales. Internal consistency is the extent to which a group of items measure the same construct, as evidenced by how well they vary together, or intercorrelate. A high degree of internal consistency enables the researcher to interpret the composite score as a measure of the construct (Henson, 2001). Assuming the FSSE scales effectively measure an underlying construct, we would expect to find high estimates of their internal consistency.

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BrckaLorenz, A., Chiang, Y., & Nelson Laird, T. (2013). Internal consistency. FSSE Psychometric Portfolio. Retrieved from fsse.indiana.edu.

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Psychometric Portfolio