Unlimited access to free ebook downloadsSurvey Scales A Guide to Development, Analysis, and Reporting By: Robert L. Johnson; Grant B. Morgan Publisher: The Guilford Press Print ISBN: 9781462526963, 1462526969 eText ISBN: 9781462526987, 1462526985 Copyright year: 2016 Format: PDF Available from $ 46.00 USD SKU: 9781462526987 Synthesizing the literature from the survey and measurement fields, this book explains how to develop closed-response survey scales that will accurately capture such constructs as attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors. It provides guidelines to help applied researchers or graduate students review existing scales for possible adoption or adaptation in a study; create their own conceptual framework for a scale; write checklists, true-false variations, and Likert-style items; design response scales; examine validity and reliability; conduct a factor analysis; and document the instrument development and its technical quality. Advice is given on constructing tables and graphs to report survey scale results. Concepts and procedures are illustrated with Not This/But This examples from multiple disciplines. User-Friendly Features *End-of-chapter exercises with sample solutions, plus annotated suggestions for further reading. *Not This/But This examples of poorly written and strong survey items. *Chapter-opening overviews and within-chapter summaries. *Glossary of key concepts. *Appendix with examples of parametric and nonparametric procedures for group comparisons. Additional ISBNs 9781462526970, 1462526977 SKU: 9781462526963 Ebooks here: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Survey-Scales
