Assignment task:
Construct Development and Test
Imagine you are working as a research assistant and have been asked to develop a measurement construct to solve a problem or collect data.
Choose a construct you would like to measure (depression, anxiety, etc.).
Come up with an operational definition of your construct using at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles as references (you can use the DSM as a scholarly source to define your construct, but please do not use websites).
Create a 10-question test to measure the construct.
- Justify whether this is an interview or self-report instrument and the method of scaling you used to create the test items.
- Describe the methods you used for item selection and how item selection was evaluated.
- Describe how you would norm this instrument. For your description, you should:
- Discuss how many people you would give it to.
- Describe the characteristics that your respondents would have (gender, age, SES, etc.).
- Explain to whom the instrument would be generalized.
- Describe how you would establish reliability.
- Describe how you would establish validity.