השוואת שיטות

	אלפא קרונבך סודר	ניתוח גורמים מאשר (CFA)
תחום	פסיכומטריה	פסיכומטריה
משפחה	Latent structure	Latent structure
שנת המקור	2007	1969
הוגה השיטה	Zumbo, Gadermann, and Zeisser	Karl Gustav Jöreskog
סוג	Internal consistency reliability coefficient	Hypothesis-testing latent variable model
מקור מכונן	Zumbo, B. D., Gadermann, A. M., & Zeisser, C. (2007). Ordinal versions of coefficients alpha and theta for Likert rating scales. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 6(1), 21–29.	Jöreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34(2), 183–202.
כינויים	alpha for ordinal data, polychoric alpha, ordinal reliability coefficient, alpha based on polychoric correlations	CFA, confirmatory FA, measurement model, restricted factor analysis
קשורות	3	4
תקציר	Ordinal Cronbach's alpha is a reliability coefficient computed from polychoric or polyserial correlations rather than Pearson correlations, making it appropriate for Likert-type and other ordinal item response data. It corrects the systematic downward bias that standard Cronbach's alpha produces when items are treated as continuous but are actually ordinal.	Confirmatory factor analysis tests a researcher-specified factor structure against observed data. Unlike exploratory approaches, the researcher decides in advance which indicators load on which latent factor, and the model is evaluated by how closely the implied covariance matrix reproduces the sample covariance matrix. CFA is central to scale validation, construct validity assessment, and measurement invariance testing.