Psychology · Psychometrics & Measurement

Test Construction

A topic within Psychometrics & Measurement, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Paper2018

Best Practices for Developing and Validating Scales for Health, Social, and Behavioral Research: A Primer

Godfred O. Boateng et al.

Lays out a step-by-step protocol - item generation, expert review, pilot testing, factor analysis - for building a psychometric scale, aimed at researchers outside psychometrics who need to construct a defensible measure.

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Paper2019

Constructing Validity: New Developments in Creating Objective Measuring Instruments

Lee Anna Clark & David Watson

Revisits their own 1995 guide to argue test construction should start from a clear theoretical account of the construct being measured, updating the practical steps - item pool generation, item selection, validation - for what has changed in the field since.

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Best Practices for Developing and Validating Scales for Health, Social, and Behavioral Research: A Primer

Constructing Validity: New Developments in Creating Objective Measuring Instruments

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