I'm a teacher of psyc research methods and stats at a community college and I want to say that I appreciate your videos! Thanks for the clear explanations and also links to primary source materials!
Strictly speaking, I do not believe SPSS produces item discrimination index values. However, the corrected item-total correlations will give you nearly the identical information (from an interpretation perspective). It's rare to see people use item discrimination index values these days.
Finally somebody who knows what they are talking about. Can I suggest you something if you will? When you are explaining the numbers in terms of reliability and what is acceptable, could you elaborate it with help of the real data. Like if the numbers were to change reliability figures, how the real data would be affected. Anyway, thanks for this great explanation.
Enjoyed the video and very helpful. However, I am not clear how to interpret the SPSS report when item discrimination needs to be discussed. I guess my question is how do if find the item discrimination on a SPSS report. Thank you.
@usmanisah The link to the webpage with the references I mention is in the summary of the video; check underneath the video and then press the downward arrow to expand the area; the link will become visible. RUclips won't let me post the link in this response, unfortunately.
Thank you, Sir for this tutorial. I have a question, I got .938 Cronbach's Alpha value. According to the value table, I should shorten my scale. What does that mean to shorten the scale? The items? Or the number of items? Thank you so much.
Very helpful and good explanation. Thank you! I just have two questions to the understanding of results regarding Cronbachs Alpha: 1) In the 'Inter-item Correlation Matrix' is there any "rule of thumb" of what should be the highest and lowest scores in the table? Example; if you have scores like .787 and .858, will these be ok or should they not exceed .70?
Hello, thank you so much. Please answer me. Do I calculate the Cronbach's alpha separately variable by variable, or the whole 5 or 6 variables together (which is my case)?
This video is so useful!! I encounter a problem is that, what if some of the items of my questionnaire are intentionally negative-statement and the other items are positive-statement, and those negative statements are NEGATIVELY CORRELATED as shown in the item-total correlation matrix, what shall I do??? Thank you so so much!!
2) In the 'Item-Total Statistics' and the 'Corrected Item-total Correlation'; the items should be between .30 and .70 (.75) however, if you have scores that are above .75 (example; .813) would you then say that the iten should be deleted or kept? The item of .813 does not indicate that Cronbachs Alpha could get any higher by deleting the item. Thank
usually, there is not a lot you can do, except admit that your scale is not internally consistent enough to interpret meaningfully. Sometimes you can drop more than one item to enhance Cronbach's alpha, but not often. If you are knowledgeable enough, you could try analysing polychoric correlations or tetrachortic correlations rather than Pearson correlations, depending on how your items are scored. I haven't covered that yet. Perhaps google will help you find something.
Thank you for your helpful videos. I am struggling to find the reference to back up that it is justifiable to accept a range of 0.2 to 0.7 for corrected item-total correlation. Please help :)
Hi your tutorials are very helpfull. I have a questions. If the covariance between items of a test is high, what does that say about the Cronbach's Alpha?? Please help me....
What is the meaning of if the determinants value is less than 0.0001,and data found to be 5.857E-16 which is less than 0.0001? I am unable to understand how is it less than
It's impossible to calculate Cronbach's alpha on one variable. You need at least two. Include the variables you are interested in with respect to their corresponding internal consistency reliability.
Hi Thanks for tutorials, really interesting and informative. I have learnt a lot. You said at the end of ur video that you were going to provide some references on Cronchbach's Alpha but I couldn't find it.. Please could you provide some if you can, thanks.
Thanks for the suggestion, dc78. MLM is a pretty specific type of analysis (I never come across them expect in the context of education research), but I imagine I'll get around to it eventually. If you come across a really interesting empirical study that has used MLM, perhaps you could send it to me.
Dear Sir, in the video above the cronbach alfa is .65 and if we delete item 15 (EOT) the cronbach alfa would increase to .664. My question, is the process of deletion of undesirable item (in order to increase overall value of cronbach alfa considered as a instrument calibration ?
Hi there, thanks for the helpful videos, I'm a bachelor student currently doing my marketing thesis, and had a few questions regarding SPSS. is there an email i would be able to contact on, it would only really be two questions and of real help. Kind regards. Michael
Nice video, thank you. Now you added the items for each subscale. Do you also have to do the same for the subscales? (so you enter the subscales, not the items)
Good question! The answer to that question is a little complicated. Check out: Gignac, G. E. (2014). On the Inappropriateness of Using Items to Calculate Total Scale Score Reliability via Coefficient Alpha for Multidimensional Scales. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 30(2), 130-139.
I'm a teacher of psyc research methods and stats at a community college and I want to say that I appreciate your videos! Thanks for the clear explanations and also links to primary source materials!
You, Sir, have saved my university education! Thank you! Great Videos and very easy to understand!
Your explanation is so clear. Thank you so much, Sir.
Helpful. As always. My go-to statistics/SPSS page :)
Strictly speaking, I do not believe SPSS produces item discrimination index values. However, the corrected item-total correlations will give you nearly the identical information (from an interpretation perspective). It's rare to see people use item discrimination index values these days.
Finally somebody who knows what they are talking about. Can I suggest you something if you will? When you are explaining the numbers in terms of reliability and what is acceptable, could you elaborate it with help of the real data. Like if the numbers were to change reliability figures, how the real data would be affected. Anyway, thanks for this great explanation.
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Exactly what I needed. Great job. Thanks for helping us newbs!
Enjoyed the video and very helpful. However, I am not clear how to interpret the SPSS report when item discrimination needs to be discussed. I guess my question is how do if find the item discrimination on a SPSS report. Thank you.
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Thank you very much , your tuto helped a lot :). From a French student !
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@usmanisah
The link to the webpage with the references I mention is in the summary of the video; check underneath the video and then press the downward arrow to expand the area; the link will become visible. RUclips won't let me post the link in this response, unfortunately.
how do we then improve the inter item correlation matrix. Any videos?
Thank you, Sir for this tutorial. I have a question, I got .938 Cronbach's Alpha value.
According to the value table, I should shorten my scale. What does that mean to shorten the scale? The items? Or the number of items? Thank you so much.
Great video. If you have a negative cronbach's alpha. What actions can you take to get the number positive?
You would only interpret standardized Cronbach's alpha if your data are standardized (e.g., z-scores or T-scores, etc.). You don't "pick and choose".
Very helpful and good explanation. Thank you! I just have two questions to the understanding of results regarding Cronbachs Alpha:
1) In the 'Inter-item Correlation Matrix' is there any "rule of thumb" of what should be the highest and lowest scores in the table? Example; if you have scores like .787 and .858, will these be ok or should they not exceed .70?
Hello, thank you so much. Please answer me. Do I calculate the Cronbach's alpha separately variable by variable, or the whole 5 or 6 variables together (which is my case)?
very helpful helped finish my research faster and easily..keep it up
Thank you! I think I missed the link to the web page?
This video is so useful!!
I encounter a problem is that, what if some of the items of my questionnaire are intentionally negative-statement and the other items are positive-statement,
and those negative statements are NEGATIVELY CORRELATED as shown in the item-total correlation matrix,
what shall I do???
Thank you so so much!!
2) In the 'Item-Total Statistics' and the 'Corrected Item-total Correlation'; the items should be between .30 and .70 (.75) however, if you have scores that are above .75 (example; .813) would you then say that the iten should be deleted or kept? The item of .813 does not indicate that Cronbachs Alpha could get any higher by deleting the item.
Thank
very well explained! Please may I know any cut off scores for inter-item correlation?
usually, there is not a lot you can do, except admit that your scale is not internally consistent enough to interpret meaningfully. Sometimes you can drop more than one item to enhance Cronbach's alpha, but not often. If you are knowledgeable enough, you could try analysing polychoric correlations or tetrachortic correlations rather than Pearson correlations, depending on how your items are scored. I haven't covered that yet. Perhaps google will help you find something.
Thank you for your helpful videos. I am struggling to find the reference to back up that it is justifiable to accept a range of 0.2 to 0.7 for corrected item-total correlation. Please help :)
Hi your tutorials are very helpfull. I have a questions. If the covariance between items of a test is high, what does that say about the Cronbach's Alpha?? Please help me....
what if the corrected item correlation is below 2.. should we delete the item??
What is the meaning of if the determinants value is less than 0.0001,and data found to be 5.857E-16 which is less than 0.0001? I am unable to understand how is it less than
I am new to learn this,if anyone guide me how to explain it
It's impossible to calculate Cronbach's alpha on one variable. You need at least two. Include the variables you are interested in with respect to their corresponding internal consistency reliability.
Can you explain me how you manualy calculate Crombach's alpha if item deleted? from the SPSS output..
Hi Thanks for tutorials, really interesting and informative. I have learnt a lot. You said at the end of ur video that you were going to provide some references on Cronchbach's Alpha but I couldn't find it.. Please could you provide some if you can, thanks.
Hey thank you for your tutorial. Is it possible to have the database?
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Thank so much for the explanation. Now what reliability mean clear to me
Thanks for the suggestion, dc78. MLM is a pretty specific type of analysis (I never come across them expect in the context of education research), but I imagine I'll get around to it eventually. If you come across a really interesting empirical study that has used MLM, perhaps you could send it to me.
Thank you!
But what the minimum number of cases should be in base for checking alpha?
Dear Sir, in the video above the cronbach alfa is .65 and if we delete item 15 (EOT) the cronbach alfa would increase to .664. My question, is the process of deletion of undesirable item (in order to increase overall value of cronbach alfa considered as a instrument calibration ?
I found the reference to corrected item-total correlation >0.3, but not >0.2. Kindly help
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Hi there, thanks for the helpful videos, I'm a bachelor student currently doing my marketing thesis, and had a few questions regarding SPSS. is there an email i would be able to contact on, it would only really be two questions and of real help. Kind regards. Michael
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Nice video, thank you.
Now you added the items for each subscale.
Do you also have to do the same for the subscales? (so you enter the subscales, not the items)
Good question! The answer to that question is a little complicated. Check out: Gignac, G. E. (2014). On the Inappropriateness of Using Items to Calculate Total Scale Score Reliability via Coefficient Alpha for Multidimensional Scales. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 30(2), 130-139.
Very detailed explanation. thank you very much, excellent!
can I do Cronbach Alpha test on question (30 Questions) with (true / false) answer? anyone?
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if my cronbach's alpha is 0.4 what does mean 0.5 , 0.6 , 0.7 , 0.8 ?
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