Advanced: Scale Development

Course description

This course aims to introduce various aspects of scale development starting with the importance of conceptually establishing the construct to be measured, generation of the item pool and its incorporation into questionnaire design, then working through different approaches to reliability and validity assessment. The workshop will also include a brief introduction to the rating scale models within the Item Response Theory.

The course is aimed to be practically oriented with extensive use of the IBM SPSS and Stata statistical packages.

The details of the connection to the Web Conference will be emailed to enrolled participants a day before the course and again an hour before the event. Please contact stats.consultant@flinders.edu.au if you have any questions relating to this course.

Type of course

Web conference

Presenters

Who should attend

Staff and Research Higher Degree Students who are undertaking research involving measuring human attitudes.

What you will learn

• How to create an item pool
• Different concepts of reliability and validity
• How to assess internal consistency of the scale
• How to assess factorial validity by using Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
• Brief introduction to rating scale models within the Item Response Theory

Prerequisites / assumed knowledge

Preferably participants should attend Introduction to SPSS, Introduction to Stata, Introduction to Statistical Analysis, Intermediate: Understanding Your Data and Checking Assumptions, Intermediate: Correlation and Intermediate: Multiple Regression (or have an understanding of concepts/skills covered in the listed above courses) before enrolling in this workshop.