Reliability and Validity of Questionnaire Items--Status,Social-Psychological, and Educational Plans and Aspirations Variables

Author(s):

Echternacht, Gary J.

Publication Year:

1974

Report Number:

RB-74-12

Source:

ETS Research Bulletin

Document Type:

Report

Page Count:

22

Subject/Key Words:

Educational Objectives, High School Students, Item Analysis, Questionnaires, School Surveys, Student Attitudes, Test Reliability, Validity Studies

Abstract

National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 in this article, some of the implications resulting from reliability and validity studies conducted with educational surveys are discussed. Selected results are presented for a reliability and validity study conducted with the base-year data collection for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, a project currently being sponsored by the National Center for Educational Statistics of the U.S. Office of Education. (22pp.)

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