In Order to Ensure That High Scores Mean the Same

Multiple Choice

In order to ensure that high scores mean the same thing for items worded in a positive and negative direction on a 1 to 5 scale, you rescore the negatively worded items so that 1 becomes 5, 2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 2, and 5 becomes 1. This procedure is known as

A) Osgood scoring
B) differential scoring
C) Thurstone scoring
D) reverse scoring.