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Summated Rating Scale Construction: An Introduction

Summated Rating Scale Construction: An Introduction

Paperback

Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Book 82

General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0803943415
ISBN13: 9780803943414
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: Nov 26 1991
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

The goal for any social scientist conducting a survey is to develop a rating on some attitude, value or opinion - a summated rating scale. Aimed at helping researchers construct more effective scales, Spector shows how to determine the number of items necessary, the appropriate amount of response categories and the most productive wording of items. The author discusses how to sort good items from bad (including item-remainder coefficients and Cronbach's alpha) and how to validate a scale, including dimensional validity from factor analysis. User-friendly, the book concludes with a step-by-step account of how to develop a summated rating scale based on classical test theory.

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