Connotatively Consistent and Reversed Connotatively Inconsistent Items are Not Fully Equivalent: Generalizability Study
- 1 December 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 55 (6) , 991-997
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164495055006007
Abstract
This article redefines what has been referred to as "negatively worded items" in the literature. The new term—"connotatively inconsistent items"—is more nearly accurate because it has a broader base for generalization. Using generalizability theory with a sample of 102 graduate students, the study showed that connotatively consistent and reversed connotatively inconsistent items were not fully equivalent.Keywords
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