Survey research and design in psychology/Lectures/Psychometric instrument development

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Lecture 6: Psychometric instrument development

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This is the sixth lecture for the Survey research and design in psychology unit of study.

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Outline

This lecture recaps the previous lecture on exploratory factor analysis, and introduces psychometrics and (fuzzy) concepts and their measurement, including (operationalisation), reliability (particularly internal consistency of multi-item measures), validity and the creation of composite scores.

This lecture is accompanied by a computer-lab based tutorial.

Readings

1. Bryman, A. & Cramer, D. (1997). Concepts and their measurement (Ch. 4). In Quantitative data analysis with SPSS for Windows: A guide for social scientists (pp. 53-68). Routledge. eReserve.
2. DeCoster, J. (2000). Scale construction notes.
3. Howitt, D. & Cramer, D. (2005). Reliability and validity: Evaluating the value of tests and measures (Ch. 13). In Introduction to research methods in psychology (pp. 218-231). Harlow, Essex: Pearson. eReserve.
4. Howitt, D. & Cramer, D. (2011). Reliability in scales and measurement: Consistency and agreement (Ch. 36). In Introduction to statistics in psychology (5th ed; pp. 443-454). Harlow, UK: Pearson.
5. Wikiversity. Measurement error
6. Wikiversity. Reliability and validity

Handouts

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Recordings

These are the 2013 lecture recordings:

• echo360 (rich media)
• mpv (video)
• mp3 (audio)

See also

• Exploratory factor analysis (Previous lecture)
• Multiple linear regression I (Next lecture)
• Psychometrics (Tutorial)
• Measurement error
• Reliability and validity

External links

• Lecture slides (slideshare)