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Solution) The following are the item-total statistics for these five items generated by SPSS. Based on this an

Question: The following are the item-total statistics for these five items generated by SPSS. Based on this analysis, are there any items that should be eliminated because they do not measure what the total test measures? For this exercise, any item that correlates less than r = .30 with the total of the remaining items should be considered a “bad” item.

Item-Total Statistics

	Scale Mean if Item Deleted	Scale Variance if Item Deleted	Corrected Item-Total Correlation	Cronbach's Alpha if Item Deleted
I1	2.10	2.544	.297	.838
I2	1.50	2.278	.524	.780
I3	1.90	1.878	.691	.726
I4	2.00	2.000	.651	.741
I5	1.70	1.789	.772	.696