ECPY 740

Psychometrics and Affective Instrument Development

This course is intended to further students' understanding of psychometrics, with a focus on developing and validating attitude, evaluation, and other affective instruments. This course is intended to teach students to evaluate the psychometric properties of instruments and to develop and validate affective instruments. The course will cover item development, scaling procedures, content validity, unidimensionality, construct validity, "factorial" validity, internal consistency reliability, and brief exposure to generalizability theory and IRT. Students will learn how to conduct exploratory factor analyses, and reliability analyses. Students will create and pilot an affective instrument for the final project

Units: 3.0