Reliability and Validity of Measures Discussion For this Assignment, you will critically evaluate a scholarly article related to reliability, validity, and scale analysis.
To prepare
Review the Article Critique Assignment Guide in the Walden Library, listed in the Week 2 Learning Resources.
Search the Walden Library for a quantitative article that utilizes scales.
The Assignment
Write a 2- to 3-page critique of the research includes responses to the following prompts:
Did the authors construct scales in a clear, concise manner?
Were the authors explanations clear regarding the reliability and validity of their measures?
What information did the authors provide about establishing reliability and validity?
Resources
Warner, R. M. (2013). Applied statistics: From bivariate through multivariate techniques (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Chapter 21, Reliability, Validity, and Multiple-Item Scales (pp. 901952)
This chapter provides an important nugget of wisdom: The analyses you explored in previous weeks will yield meaningful results only if you have a well-specified model and if all the measurements for the variables are reliable and valid. This chapter outlines reliability, validity, and multiple-item scales, which should be acknowledged when evaluating the quality of measurements.
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