Instrument Development in the Affective Domain School and Corporate Applications /

• Main Authors: McCoach, D. Betsy (Author), Gable, Robert K. (Author), Madura, John P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2013.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personnel management.; Assessment.; Psychology, general.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Human Resource Management.

Whether the concept being studied is job satisfaction, self-efficacy, or student motivation, values and attitudes--affective characteristics--provide crucial keys to how individuals think, learn, and behave. And not surprisingly, as measurement of these traits gains importance in the academic and co...

Table of Contents:

• Affective characteristics in school and corporate environments: Their conceptual differences
• Defining measuring and scaling affective constructs
• Evidence based on test content
• Evidence based on the internal structure of the instrument: Factor analysis
• Additional evidence based on the internal structure of the instrument
• Evidence based on relations to other variables: Bolstering the empirical validity argument for constructs
• The reliability of scores from affective instruments
• Review of the steps for designing an instrument.