Requirement For Advanced Psychometrics
Requirement For Advanced Psychometrics
Requirement For Advanced Psychometrics
(1) Carefully review a material (e.g. book chapter, journal, articles, & etc.) on the
personality construct, trait, or characteristics of interest. Your task will be to write a set of items
that reflects the construct domain, so try to identify as many aspects or dimensions of
the construct as you can(Note: this is fundamental step in the scale construction process and is
necessary to provide evidence of the validity of your scale)
(2) Conduct how will test validity and reliability and validity of your scale after you have
constructed. For example, you might want to provide construct-related for the validity of your
scale.
(3) Identify the item format you will used (e.g dichotomous, Likert scale, checklist etc.)
You must use the same format for all items on the scale.
(4) Write at least 10 items you believe measure the construct of interest. Be sure to
review the review of grading rubrics.
(5) Write the set of demographic items (gender, age etc) to accompany your scale
(6) Write additional items and get copies of existing measures that you will need to
gather validity related evidence for your scale.
(7) Write directions for the examinees. These direction will appear on the top of the
scale developed
(8) Write a set of instructions for scoring scale. Be sure to identify items that are
reverse-scored. Also specify what a high or low score on the scale indicates (greater or lesser
degree of the trait)
(9) Edit your items, direction, scoring instruction and other materials
(10) Administer your scale and additional measure to at least 30 examinees. Make sure
your examinees do not write their names.