Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation

Name: Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation
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ISBN: 9780787987848

ISBN-10: 0787987840

ISBN-13: 9780787987848

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Colton, Robert W. Covert

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Written in easy-to-understand language, this important text provides a systematic and commonsense approach to developing instruments for data collection and analysis. This book can be used by both those who are developing instruments for the first time and those who want to hone their skills, including students, agency personnel, program managers, and researchers. This book provides a thorough presentation of instrument construction, from conception to development and pre-testing of items, formatting the instrument, administration, and, finally, data management and presentation of the findings. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize how to create an instrument that will produce…

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List price: $90.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

David Colton is Unidel Professor of Mathematics at the University of Delaware. He is the author or coauthor of six books, including The Linear Sampling Method in Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering (2011), written with Fioralba Cakoni and Peter Monk.



Preface : asking and answering



Concepts



Introduction



Instruments and social inquiry



Measurement



Instrument construction, validity, and reliability



Application



Purposeful creativity : first steps in the development of an instrument



Pretesting



The structure and format of selection items



Guidelines for writing selection items



Selection items : alternative formats



Supply items : open-ended questions



Guidelines for constructing multi-item scales



Organization and administration



Organizing the instrument



Administering the instrument



Computers and instrument construction



Managing the data and reporting the results