EDS554 SCALE CONSTRUCTION IN AFFECTIVE DOMAIN
| Course Code: | 4540554 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Educational Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, students will learn
- the major affective characteristics and how they are measured,
- the process of developing a scale, particularly in affective domain,
- how to evaluate psychometric characteristics (mainly reliability and validity) of measures,
- how to report findings technically, and
- how to evaluate a number of published instruments.
Course Content
Techniques of attitude and related characteristics measurement. Item writing and questionnaire design. Checklists, rating scales. Statistical analysis of an attitude scale. Reliability and validity of attitude scales.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- explain the structure of major affective variables and their relationship to one another
- explain the process of scale development
- describe scaling options, item formats, and scoring methods
- critically evaluate psychometric quality of instruments
- distinguish between various types of reliability and validity
- describe the relationship of reliability to validity
- write about theoretical concepts underlying the construction of a scale and develop appropriate test items for the scale
- identify when factor analysis is appropriate
- apply factor analysis to real data and interpret the results from factor analysis
- communicate for the discipline by creating, piloting, analyzing, writing, and reporting on an original scale designed for the class