A nurse researcher administered a test anxiety questionnaire to a group of nursing students before they attended a test anxiety workshop and then administered a different questionnaire to the same nurses immediately following the workshop. This is indicative of which type of reliability?
A) Split-half
B) Test-retest
C) Parallel form
D) Alternate form

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The use of a different questionnaire after the workshop suggests that the researcher used parallel forms of the test anxiety questionnaire to measure the same construct before and after the intervention. This type of reliability assesses the consistency of results obtained from different forms of a test that are intended to measure the same construct. Parallel forms are created to have equivalent content, difficulty, and reliability, so that any change in the scores of the nursing students can be attributed to the intervention rather than the measurement instrument. Split-half reliability involves dividing a test into two halves and comparing the scores on each half. Test-retest reliability assesses the consistency of scores obtained from the same test administered at two different points in time. Alternate form reliability is similar to parallel form reliability, but the two forms are not identical, although they are designed to measure the same construct.

A Nurse Researcher Administered a Test Anxiety Questionnaire to a Group