This is a practical guide to developing scales used in various health fields - medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, psychology, and the like. The chapters are presented in the order in which scales are developed: devising items, testing the items, combining the items into scales, assessing the reliability and validity of the scales; and more.
This is the new edition of the highly successful practical guide for clinicians developing tools to measure subjective states, attitudes or non-tangible outcomes in their patients. It is widely used by people from many disciplines, who have only a limited
1. Introduction; 2. Basic concepts; 3. Devising the items; 4. Scaling responses; 5. Selecting the items; 6. Biases in responding; 7. From items to scales; 8. Reliability; 9. Generalizability theory; 10. Validity; 11. Measuring change; 12. Item response theory; 13. Methods of administration; 14. Ethical considerations; Appendices; Author index; Subject index
This is the new edition of the highly successful practical guide for clinicians developing tools to measure subjective states, attitudes or non-tangible outcomes in their patients. It is widely used by people from many disciplines, who have only a limited
1. Introduction; 2. Basic concepts; 3. Devising the items; 4. Scaling responses; 5. Selecting the items; 6. Biases in responding; 7. From items to scales; 8. Reliability; 9. Generalizability theory; 10. Validity; 11. Measuring change; 12. Item response theory; 13. Methods of administration; 14. Ethical considerations; Appendices; Author index; Subject index