title: Meta-analysis of coefficient alpha.
abstract: The meta-analysis of coefficient alpha across many studies is becoming more common in psychology by a methodology labeled reliability generalization. Existing reliability generalization studies have not used the sampling distribution of coefficient alpha for precision weighting and other common meta-analytic procedures. A framework is provided for a statistically grounded meta-analysis of coefficient alpha using its sampling distribution. Two empirical examples are offered to illustrate these methods, and limitations of reliability generalization are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. mcrdz@umn.edu
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maeda
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*