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Table 1 Reliability measures for the 4th-year OSCE

From: Is Cronbach’s alpha sufficient for assessing the reliability of the OSCE for an internal medicine course?

Day/data group

Gender

Days

Students/h/day

Stabilitya

Internal consistencyb

P value

Internal consistencyc

First group

Male

2

56/3–3.3 h/day

0.7

0.7

<0.001

0.72 (72 %)

Second group

Female

3

97/3–4 h/day

0.8

0.7

<0.001

0.82 (82 %)

Third group

Male

2

54/3.3–4.3/day

0.9

0.8

<0.001

0.782 (78.2 %)

  1. aCronbach’s alpha
  2. bSpearman’s rank correlation
  3. cR2 coefficient determinants