Exam 13: Measurement

Carla is using education, income, and occupation to develop a measure of social class. What type of measure for social class is she developing?

All of the following are basic aspects of validity EXCEPT _____.

_____ validity consists of several components, including face validity, content validity, criterion validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity.

Which of the following is the most elementary level of measurement?

A scale that logically appears to reflect what was intended to be measured possesses _____ validity.

Measures that can take on only one of a finite number of values are called _____.

How we define a construct will affect the way we measure it.

Measures that assign values anywhere along some scale range in a place that corresponds to the intensity of some concept are called _____ measures.

Correspondence analysis is the process of identifying scale devices that correspond to properties of a concept involved in a research process.

Explain the difference between a concept and a construct, giving an example of each.

Age is an example of a _____ measure.

_____ means that the value assigned for a response is treated oppositely from the other items.

Which of the following is a device providing a range of values that correspond to different characteristics or amounts of a characteristic exhibited in observing a concept?

A(n) _____ is a single characteristic or fundamental feature of an object, person, situation, or issue.

Which type of scale is, at the most, a ranking scale?

Money is an example of something that can be measured using a ratio scale.

Scales that assign a value to an object for identification or classification purposes are called _____ scales.

When a group of experts agrees that a measuring instrument measures what it is intended to measure, we say that the instrument has ______ validity.

A scale that allows things to be arranged based on how much of some concept they possess is called a(n) _____ scale.

A _____ scale has an absolute zero point.