Hi On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Larry Daily wrote:
> I've recently had a number of students who wanted to create > questionnaires as part of their senior thesis projects. My > background has been in collecting RT and accuracy data in > recognition tasks, so I'm in unfamiliar waters. Can anyone > suggest a reference on questionnaire construction appropriate > to undergrads? Here's one suggestion related to construction of measures of individual differences, if that is the kind of "questionnaire" you are thinking of. Being from U Western Ontario, I'm most familiar with Doug Jackson rational method of test construction. The method emphasizes construct-guided methods. I did not find any good reference to it, but I'm assuming it may be described in the following entry in Kazdin's Encyclopedia of Psychology. ---------------------------- Author(s): Jackson, Douglas N., University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada Source: Encyclopedia of psychology, Vol. 7. Kazdin, Alan E. (Ed); pp. 148-151. Washington, DC, London, US : American Psychological Association Oxford University Press, 2000. 537 pp. Publisher URL: http://www.apa.org/books ; ISBN: 1-55798-656-8 (hardcover) Digital Object Identifier: 10.1037/10522-060 Language: English Keywords: scale development Abstract: (from the create) This entry includes the following topics: external method of scale construction; construct method of scale construction; factor analytic method of scale construction; development and analysis of the item pool; norming and validation; computer assessment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) ---------------------------------- The following article demonstrates the effectiveness of construct-guided test construction, even by naive item writers. --------------------------------------- Title: The relative validity of scales prepared by naive item writers and those based on empirical methods of personality scale construction. Author(s): Jackson, Douglas N., U Western Ontario, London, Canada Source: Educational & Psychological Measurement, Vol 35(2), Sum 1975. pp. 361-370. Journal URL: http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=165 Publisher: US: Sage Publications Publisher URL: http://www.sagepublications.com/ ISSN: 0013-1644 (Print) --------------------------------------- I also have links to measurement sites (not up to date, unfortunately) by following the RESEARCH | MEASUREMENT path at www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark. It includes a manuscript I've used in my honours class. Again, needs updating. Best wishes Jim ============================================================================ James M. Clark (204) 786-9757 Department of Psychology (204) 774-4134 Fax University of Winnipeg 4L05D Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark ============================================================================ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
