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	Cronbach's Alpha แบบย่อ	ทฤษฎีการตอบสนองข้อสอบ (IRT)
สาขาวิชา	การวัดทางจิตวิทยา	การวัดทางจิตวิทยา
ตระกูล	Latent structure	Latent structure
ปีกำเนิด	1951 (alpha); short-form practice codified 1980s–2000s	1952–1968
ผู้ริเริ่ม	L. J. Cronbach (alpha); short-form application formalized across scale-abbreviation literature	Frederic M. Lord (and Allan Birnbaum for the 2PL/3PL models)
ประเภท	Internal consistency reliability coefficient	Probabilistic measurement model
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Smith, G. T., McCarthy, D. M. & Anderson, K. G. (2000). On the sins of short-form development. Psychological Assessment, 12(1), 102–111.	Lord, F. M. & Novick, M. R. (1968). Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores. Addison-Wesley.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	abbreviated scale alpha, brief scale internal consistency, short-scale Cronbach's alpha, reduced-item alpha	IRT, latent trait theory, item characteristic curve theory, modern test theory
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	5
สรุป	Short-form Cronbach's alpha quantifies the internal consistency reliability of an abbreviated version of a psychological scale. It applies Cronbach's alpha formula to a reduced item set, verifying that the shortened instrument retains sufficient reliability to support valid score interpretation in research and applied contexts.	Item response theory models the probability that a respondent answers an item correctly (or endorses it) as a function of the respondent's latent trait level and the item's own statistical properties — difficulty, discrimination, and guessing. Unlike classical test theory, IRT places persons and items on the same scale, yielding measurement that is sample-independent for items and test-independent for persons.