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Not infrequently, investigators assume that reliability for groups is greater than reliability for persons, and/or that error variance for groups is less than error variance for persons. Using generalizability theory, it is shown that this conventional wisdom is not necessarily true. Examples are provided from the course evaluation literature and the performance testing literature
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