Number of Response Categories and Statistics on a Teacher Rating Scale
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 43 (2) , 397-401
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001316448304300209
Abstract
Each of six forms of a 10-item teacher evaluation rating scale, having 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 response categories per form, was administered to over 100 students at a Pacific Coast college. Means of item responses increased linearly and item variances increased curvilinearly with number of response categories. Internal consistency reliability coefficients (alpha) of total scores did not change systematically with increases in the number of response categories.Keywords
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