WIAT-III Technical Report #2: Reliability Coefficients and...
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Reliability Coefficients and Standard Errors ofMeasurement for Subtest Component Scores
Technical Report #2April 2010
Kristina C. Breaux, PhDFrances E. Frey, MA
OverviewThistechnicalreportprovidesthefall,spring,andage-basedreliabilitycoefficientsandstandard errors of measurement (SEM) for the subtest component scores within the following subtests: Listening Comprehension, Oral Expression, Sentence Composition, and Essay Composition. Subtest component standard scores allow practitioners to evaluate differencesinperformancebetweencomponentsandtoidentifyrelativestrengthsandweaknesses.
Reliability CoefficientsTables1–3includethereliabilitycoefficientsofthesubtestcomponentscoresforthefall,spring,andagesamples,respectively.Thesereliabilitycoefficientsmaybeusedtoevaluatetheprecisionofthesubtestcomponentscores.Reliabilitycoefficientsformostofthesubtest component scores were obtained utilizing the split-half method. A subtest’s split-half reliabilitycoefficientisthecorrelationbetweenthetotalscoresofitemsfromeachhalfofthesubtest, corrected by the Spearman-Brown formula for the length of the full subtest. Because Essay Composition (Theme Development and Text Organization; Word Count) does not have item-level data, and the Oral Word Fluency component of the Oral Expression subtest is a speeded measure, the split-half reliability method is not appropriate for these subtest componentscores.Instead,test-reteststabilitycoefficientswereusedasthereliabilityestimatesforthesesubtestcomponents.Thesestabilitycoefficientswerebasedonthescores of students who participated in the test-retest study described in chapter 3 of the WIAT–III Technical Manual.
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