Individual
Construct
Development, Scale Creation, and Process Analysis Assignment

Part I: Construct
Development and Scale Creation

Choose a psychological construct you
would like to measure.

Create an operational definition of your construct
using at least three peer-reviewed journal articles as references.

Select and list five items used to sample the
domain.

Select the method of scaling (nominal, ordinal,
etc.) appropriate for the domain. Justify why you selected the scaling method
you did.

Format the items into an instrument with which you
would query respondents. Justify whether this is an interview or self-report
instrument.

Part II: Analysis and
Justification

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word analysis of how you developed
your instrument.

Describe how you would norm this instrument and which
reliability measures you would use. Answer the following questions:

• · How many people would
  you give it to?
• · What characteristics
  would your respondents have?
• · To whom would the
  instrument be generalized?

Describe how you would establish validity, the
methods you used for item selection, and how item selection will be evaluated.

Label your word processing file using your first initial, a
space, and your last name (e.g., my word processing file would be labeled: A
Hernandez).

Post this assignment to the Assignments page.