Instrument design
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This is the landing page for everything related to the measurement instrument used for measuring your constructs of interest. Note that if you use a single item to measure your construct, that item is your instrument (and then the item landing page may be most helpful).
They way your instrument is designed, from the order of your items to the length of your questionnaire, will directly impact what you measure.
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We have collected various topics for you to read more about below.
Read more: Instrument design
- Using single item or multiple item measures
- [Questionnaire design]
- [Ordering questions in your questionnaire]
- [Sum or mean scores versus measurement models]
Read more: Instrument Validation
- Validation landing page
- [When are my measurements good enough?]
- [Qualitative evaluations of measurement instruments]
- Reliability for single items
- [Reliability for multiple item measures]
- [Face validity for ILD][Content validity for ILD]
- [Predictive, convergent, and divergent validity for ILD]
Citation
BibTeX citation:
@online{schuurman2023,
author = {Schuurman, Noémi K.},
title = {Instrument Design},
date = {2023-07-18},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Schuurman, N. K. (2023, July 18). Instrument design.