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Generalizability in Factorable Domains: "Domain Validity and Generalizability"1
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It is shown that if a behavior domain can be described by the common factor model with a finite number of factors, the squared correlation between the sum of a selection of items and the domain total score is actually greater than coefficient alpha. Equality is attained only if the selected items are parallel. Generalizability can be correctly assessed as a function of the item uniquenesses and the test variance.
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Metadata
- Authors
- McDonald, R. P.
- Venue
- Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1978-04
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 75-79
- ISSN
- 0013-1644 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3888
- OpenAlex
- W2159819294
- Cited by
- 187
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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