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Lab #2 Designing a measure

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INSTRUCTIONS: In this lab you will design and test a one-page survey questionnaire measure that fits the particular area of the common research interest of your group or some other psychological function that you agree upon. Complete each step below. For your lab report, answer the questions below in V part e. Please hand in all of your work from each step of the lab. Therefore, you need to save your original questions and also the revised questions. Also provide results of the SPSS output with your lab. The final version of the questionnaire should resemble a questionnaire that you would administer to participants in a real study. It should be creative, neat, and concise. I.

Purpose: To develop initial questionnaire items: a. Develop 10 survey questionnaire items that are intended to measure a common aspect of your group’s research as described above. You may use similar types of questionnaires existing in the literature for ideas, but you must make your own items. b. Your questions should operationalize the variable of interest to your research topic. c. Describe the variable of interests and how you are operationalizing it. d. Create 1 open-ended question to end your survey which can serve as a validity check. For example, if you are trying to create a survey of selfesteem, your open-ended question should be on a scale of 1 – 10 with one meaning low self-esteem and 10 being the highest self-esteem you could probably have, rate your current self-esteem. Or you could simply ask What is your self-esteem?

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Purpose: To pre-test the questionnaire items a. Exchange your survey questionnaire questions with one other group in this class and ask the other group members to assess the quality and clarity of your questions. Make sure that the evaluators keep in mind the target group who would receive the questionnaire. For example, if you were surveying 13-year-old teens, ask the other group members to evaluate if as applying to 13-year-old teens. b. Concerning the open-ended questions ask what kind of responses the group evaluating your questions might provide if asked? c. How do you think that you used the feedback and comments that you have received from the other group?

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Purpose: To revise the questions: a. Revise your questions based on the feedback that you received and on the questions that you may have generated as a result of your discussions.

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Purpose: To organize and develop the layout for the questionnaire. a. Use the material discussed in class to develop the layout for the survey questionnaire. Since we are using survey monkey, you will be given options for layout from which you choose so much of the work had been

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Lab #2 Designing a measure

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done for you. Remember that the type of response produces different kinds of data that will influence the analysis of your data (ordinal, nominal, interval, and ratio). What you will create depends on your questions and what information you wish to generate from the analyses of data from them. How will you organize your questions and what layout did you choose? Explain your answers. How did you choose the order of the questions in your questionnaire? How will you describe the questionnaire and the items used in the questionnaire? Develop the instructions for the participants to follow when completing the questionnaire.

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Purpose: To practice administering the questionnaire to individuals in the class and to assess the quality of the questionnaire produced. A Link into the U of S survey tool: https://surveymonkey.usask.ca a. Make your survey and make it available to your classmates for data gathering. Follow the instructions on the tool (use the email convention). b. Collect on-line data from all group members except those who gave you feedback in the pilot stage above. Remember to use a code for each person (to assure participant anonymity). c. After you have administered the questionnaire decide how you will code the data. Describe this process. What are you looking for? How did you decide on the codes? d. Using SPSS enter the data of choice. You should have separate item scores and then a subscale score for all the items that you have lumped together. Taking each of the individual items that make up one subscale run a reliability analysis (under Analyze). Then compute a total score for your scale. (Transform, compute). Compare your total score with the comments you received to the open-ended question #10. e. For your lab report, answer the following questions: i. What were your first set of questions? How did they change as a result of feedback from classmates? ii. What were your reliability results? How reliable were the items in measuring what you set out to measure? How did the item total correlations help you to improve reliability of your scale? iii. Does your scale have validity? How does your total score compare with the comments to the open -ended question? iv. What else might you consider to make your scale more reliable and valid? If it was not reliable or valid, how might you start over? Grading: see Rubric.

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