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Table 2 Fit indices of the CFA models for the Likert items with three and five categories, respectively

From: Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine – development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical Lectures) questionnaire

Fit Index

Likert items with three categories

Likert items with five categories

CHISQa

1467.27

9915.54

PVALUEb

< 0.001

< 0.001

CFIc

0.97

0.74

TLId

0.96

0.70

RMSEAe

0.08

0.16

RMSEA CI LOWERf

0.06

0.25

RMSEA CI UPPERg

0.07

0.25

  1. Items were treated as ordinal variables
  2. aχ2 Test. b p-value of the χ2 Test. cComparative Fit Index: satisfying values should be >0.96 dTucker-Lewis Index: satisfying values should be >0.96. eRoot Mean Square Error Approximation: satisfying values should be <0.06. flower bound of RMSEA confidence interval. gupper bound of RMSEA confidence interval