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Too Reliable to Be True? Response Bias as a Potential Source of Inflation in Paper-and-Pencil Questionnaire Reliability
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Peer, Eyal; Gamliel, Eyal – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2011
When respondents answer paper-and-pencil (PP) questionnaires, they sometimes modify their responses to correspond to previously answered items. As a result, this response bias might artificially inflate the reliability of PP questionnaires. We compared the internal consistency of PP questionnaires to computerized questionnaires that presented a…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Questionnaires, Reliability, Undergraduate Students