Posted: September 13th, 2017

research report

Order Description
Written report of the design & development of an assessment instrument
Because designing an instrument takes longer than the time available for this unit this assignment must be a partial account of the development of your instrument.
Ensure that you include the following:

• Clearly define the psychological construct.
• The rationale/justification for designing the measure (why it is needed)
• Identify possible Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) that could help you create and develop such a measure.
• Include the steps that you have taken to create the original pool of items
• The rationale/justification (with supporting references) for decisions that you made in the development of the measure relating to:
o Number of items in the scale
o The use of positively and/or negatively worded items
o Number of options in the response format
o Labelling of response options

• Use appendices to:
o Present the initial pool of items with clear reference to empirical evidence to support their inclusion (e.g. similar existing measure, theoretical paper, original item generated by author on the basis of… (Reference)
o Feedback from peers regarding the original questions
o A final version of the scale, administration instructions, items, response options and scoring instructions.

• Reference list. Each of the points above and below need to be supported with references to the empirical literature.