RELIABILITY OF RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCES RESEARCH: AN EXPOSITORY PERSPECTIVE

Shodiya Olayinka Abideen, Obamiro John Kolade and Tijani Abideen Adekunle
Additional contact information
Shodiya Olayinka Abideen: Department of Business & Finance, Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
Obamiro John Kolade: Department of Business Administration, Lagos State University Lagos State, Nigeria
Tijani Abideen Adekunle: Department of Business Administration, Lagos State University Lagos State, Nigeria

Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series, 2022, vol. 2, issue 50, 93-109

Abstract: The reliability of test scores is the extent to which they are consistent across different occasions of testing, different editions of the test, or different raters scoring the test taker’s responses. Popular and commonly used reliability assessment approaches in Nigeria and in the field of management are the use of Cronbach alpha and Test-retest reliability tests for instrument reliability. Despite these, there are different types of reliabilities which are less reported in the field of management in the Nigeria academia. Based on this, the study reviewed various approaches and types of reliability test commonly utilised in Management sciences. The study used an exploratory research technique and relied on information from previous studies and publications, including journals, textbooks, periodicals, and the internet. The paper explored all of the pertinent concerns surrounding quantitative research instrument reliability and reviewed test reliability which include but not limited to: “alternate-forms reliability,” “inter-rater reliability,” “internal consistency,” “reliability coefficient,” “classification consistency,” with illustrations. It was concluded that reliability testing must be properly performed in order to do successful quantitative research.

Keywords: Research instrument; Reliability; Alternate-forms reliability; inter-rater reliability; internal consistency; reliability coefficient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://feaa.ucv.ro/annals/v2_2022/010.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aio:aucsse:v:2:y:2022:i:50:p:93-109

Access Statistics for this article

Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series is currently edited by Sorinel Domnisoru

More articles in Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series from University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Anca Bandoi ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).