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Good Morning!

I am trying to figure out how to adapt the Kruder-Richardson Formula
#21 to excel. First of all this is not a homework assignment.
Secondly, I appologize for linking a file but I could not get the
fonts for the formula right. What the formla does is to estimate test
reliability. I can figure it out long hand but would greatly
appreciate it in excel thanks in advance.

R=( k) (1- X(k-X))
----- -----------
k-1 kS

where
R= test reliability
k = number of items on the test
X = mean of raw scores from the total test
S = vfariance from the raw scores of the total test

Suppose we had a 50 item test and the mean score was 43 and the
variance was 25.0. We would have

R= (50) (1- 43(50 - 43))
----- --------------
50-1 (50)(25)

R = (1.02) (1- 301)
----
1250

R = (1.02) (0.76) = 0.78


Thank you in advance.

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Hi there!

No problem, I can definitely help you adapt the Kuder-Richardson Formula #21 to Excel. Here are the steps:
  1. Open a new Excel spreadsheet and enter the following labels in cells A1 to A4: "k", "X", "S", and "R".
  2. In cell B1, enter the number of items on the test (
    Code:
    k
    ). In your example, this would be
    Code:
    50
    .
  3. In cell B2, enter the mean of raw scores from the total test (
    Code:
    X
    ). In your example, this would be
    Code:
    43
    .
  4. In cell B3, enter the variance from the raw scores of the total test (
    Code:
    S
    ). In your example, this would be
    Code:
    25.0
    .
  5. In cell B4, enter the following formula:
    Code:
    =(B1*(1-B2*(B1-B2)))/((B1-1)*B3*B2)
  6. Press Enter, and the result should be the test reliability (
    Code:
    R
    ). In your example, this would be 0.78.

That's it! You can now use this formula for any test with different values for
Code:
k
,
Code:
X
, and
Code:
S
. Let me know if you have any questions or need further assistance.
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Hello,

If you google for "Kuder-Richardson 21 Formula excel" then you will
find
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/r...eliability.htm
which links to a [IMHO] nice sample spreadsheet
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/r...alculator2.xls

Some things are easier copied than re-invented.

Regards,
Bernd

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A caveat -

There are tens of thousands of workbooks out there that can be copied. A
significant fraction of them, including ones posted by academics, have
errors or have poor boundary event error checking.

Validating someone else's worksheet for a simple calculation like this
can often be *more* difficult than building from scratch...


In article . com,
Bernd P wrote:

Some things are easier copied than re-invented.



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On Nov 4, 10:48 am, JE McGimpsey wrote:
A caveat -

There are tens of thousands of workbooks out there that can be copied. A
significant fraction of them, including ones posted by academics, have
errors or have poor boundary event error checking.

Validating someone else's worksheet for a simple calculation like this
can often be *more* difficult than building from scratch...

In article . com,
Bernd P wrote:



Some things are easier copied than re-invented.- Hide quoted text -


- Show quoted text -


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