Findings are discussed in light of discursive and sociomaterial considerations and a few implications are suggested. Finally, reliability was more frequently reported in the domestic corpus than in the international corpus. In most cases, primary reliability for the actual data was reported. Further, the most frequently examined facet of reliability was internal consistency estimated via Cronbach’s alpha. However, for 93 instruments, no reliability index was reported and this held true for the measurement of both language and non-language constructs. It was found that information about instrument origin was provided in the majority of cases. The following qualities in measuring instruments were used to code the data: the instrument origin, instrument reliability, reliability facets examined, reliability computation procedures utilized, and the source of reliability reported (i.e., primary or cited). This study examined the reported reliability of 211 quantitative instruments used in two samples of domestic and international theses in Applied Linguistics. Despite this, research into data collection instruments used in Applied Linguistics and particularly in the thesis genre remains limited. The credibility of conclusions arrived at in quantitative research depends, to a large extent, on the quality of data collection instruments used to quantify language and non-language constructs.
