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Robert W. Covert, Ph.D., is associate professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Graduate Studies in the program in Research, Statistics, and Evaluation.
Preface : asking and answering | |
Concepts | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Instruments and social inquiry | p. 28 |
Measurement | p. 52 |
Instrument construction, validity, and reliability | p. 64 |
Application | p. 95 |
Purposeful creativity : first steps in the development of an instrument | p. 97 |
Pretesting | p. 128 |
The structure and format of selection items | p. 148 |
Guidelines for writing selection items | p. 173 |
Selection items : alternative formats | p. 208 |
Supply items : open-ended questions | p. 227 |
Guidelines for constructing multi-item scales | p. 247 |
Organization and administration | p. 279 |
Organizing the instrument | p. 281 |
Administering the instrument | p. 313 |
Computers and instrument construction | p. 337 |
Managing the data and reporting the results | p. 350 |
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