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Ordinal Test-Retest Reliability

Ordinal test-retest reliability quantifies how consistently an ordinal measurement instrument — such as a Likert-scale questionnaire or a rating tool — ranks or scores the same participants across two separate administrations separated by a stable interval, using correlation and agreement statistics suited to ordered categorical data.

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Sources

  1. Shrout, P. E., & Fleiss, J. L. (1979). Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychological Bulletin, 86(2), 420–428. DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.86.2.420
  2. Cohen, J. (1968). Weighted kappa: Nominal scale agreement with provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit. Psychological Bulletin, 70(4), 213–220. DOI: 10.1037/h0026256

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