An Introduction to Psychological Tests and Scales
By K. Loewenthal. 2018
616 citations recorded by the source corpus.
What this book does, plus a guide on finding and using existing tests and scales: features of reliable and valid tests and scales using an existing scale. Writing: defining what you want to measure collecting items producing your preliminary questionnaire/test. Testing: deciding on samples and reducing sample bias recruiting testing. Scoring and preliminary analysis: coding, scoring and data entry selecting reliable items descriptive statistics norms summary of steps for data entry and reliability factor and principal components analyses. The final scale and its validation: descriptive statistics norms validity presenting the scale.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Education, Management Science and Operations Research
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Citations in the corpus
- Point & Teleport Locomotion Technique for Virtual Reality (2016, methodology): “…the usability of different locomotion techniques, we used a modified version of Loewenthal’s core elements of the gaming experience questionnaire [17] with eight different sub categories that are relevant to our evaluation: difficulty of understanding the method, difficulty of operating the…”
- How do museums foster loyalty in tech-savvy visitors? The role of social media and digital experience (2021, background): “Consistently with Loewenthal (2001) who suggested that α values above 0.6 are acceptable (see Hair et al., 2016), we retained the Trendiness variable because of its importance in the following analyses.”