Proposal for the calculation of the Ordinal Alpha and Armor Theta

The present article presents a program in MS Excel format for the calculation of the coefficient Ordinal Alpha and Armor Theta, used to quantify the reliability in ordinal response items. The construction of the commandos was made based on the polychoric correlation matrix of the program FACTOR (Lor...

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Autor: Domínguez Lara, Sergio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/3684
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/psico/article/view/3684
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:reliability
ordinal alpha
armor theta
polychoric correlation matrix
confiabilidad
alfa ordinal
theta de armor
matriz de correlaciones policóricas
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Sumario:The present article presents a program in MS Excel format for the calculation of the coefficient Ordinal Alpha and Armor Theta, used to quantify the reliability in ordinal response items. The construction of the commandos was made based on the polychoric correlation matrix of the program FACTOR (Lorenzo & Ferrando, 2007). The suitable use of these methods and their lack of implementation in traditional statistical packages justifies its construction like a tool for the investigator in psychology, discipline in which is common the use of Pearson correlation matrix with the limitations that this carries (it assumes that the studied variable is continuous). It is discussed the use and the limitations of the tool.