Validity and Reliability Test
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cause. Internal validity is ability of the research instrument to measure what it is purposed to measure. External validity is when an observes
causal relationship can be generalized across persons, settings, and times Donald Cooper, 2006:312. According to Ghazali 2005:45 the
validity test is used to measure the legality of a questionnaire. Test validity used to measure the legal valid or invalid of a questionnaire. A
questionnaire is said valid if the questions on the questionnaire are able to reveal something that will be on the questionnaire measure. The
total score on test validity of said valid if the number of scores 0.30 Sugiono, 2007:178. With calculating the correlation between each
question with a total score using the product moment. With r = 0.03 then the question said to be invalid.
b. Reliability If a measure has been declared invalid, then the next step is to
measure the reliability of the instrument tool. According to Cooper and Schindler 2006:352, a characteristic of measurement concerned
with accuracy, precision, and consistency; a necessary but not sufficient condition for validity if the measure is not reliable, it cannot
be valid. Reliability is concerned with estimates of the degree to which a measurement is free a random or unstable error. Reliability
can be defined as the extent to which measures are free from random error Maholtra, 2009:315. If a measurement tool has been declared
invalid, then the next step is to measure the reliability of the tool. As a
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measure which shows the consistency of the measuring instrument in measuring the same phenomenon on the other occasion. To see the
reliability, then the calculated cronbach alpha each the instrument. The variable is said to cronbach alpha have greater value 0.60 Ghozali,
2006:42. According to Ghazali 2005:42 reliability measurements can be done in 2 ways:
1 Measurements repeated: here someone will be given the same questions at different times, and then see if he remains consistent
with the answers. 2 One shot or one-time measurement: here measurement only once
and then the result were compared with another question or measure the correlation between answers to questions. SPSS
provides facilities to measure the reliability with statistical unit Cronbach alpha α. A construct or variable is said Cronbach
reliable if the value of alpha 0.60. This thesis will use one time measurement that using Cronbach alpha test α. A variable is said
to provide reliable if the Cronbach alpha values 0.60 Sugiono, 2005.
The score of reliability is differentiated on each of every variable to interpret low or high of the reliability instrument, as
directive is base on certainty as follows:
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Table 3.2 Reliability Instrument Scale
Interval Coefficient Level of Reliability
0,200 0,200-0,399
0,400-0,599 0,600-0,799
0,800-1,00 Very Low
Low Sufficient
High Very High
Source: Sugiyono, Strategi Jitu Memilih Metode Statistik Penelitian Dengan SPSS, 2005:48