The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions: How Common Practices in Scale Construction Hurt Validity.
Sound scale construction is pivotal to the measurement of psychological constructs. Common item sampling procedures emphasize aspects of reliability to the disadvantage of aspects of validity, which are less tangible. We use a health knowledge test as an example to demonstrate how item sampling stra...
| Published in: | Assessment Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 1811 - 1825 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2023
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |