Exam 6: Indexes, scales, and Typologies

Professor Duncan administered a questionnaire containing the following items: Please tell me how you feel about your supervisor's leadership style on the following three items: Duncan was using a

Professor Swanson developed an index of marital happiness.Several items in Swanson's questionnaire were not part of the index (i.e.,"How many serious quarrels or arguments have you had with your spouse in the last year?" "If you had your life to live over,do you think you would marry the same person?").Swanson compared the index score of marital happiness with these questions.Swanson was doing

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Yellow Bird wanted to develop a measure of satisfaction with school life using items to reflect the various dimensions of school life (academics,social life,residence halls).She wanted to have each item measure intensity of feeling by using such categories as "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree." Which approach is she using?

Which of the following does NOT need to be specified before the creation of an index?

Always include at least one item in an index on which all respondents give the same answer.

The coefficient of reproducibility indicates

Compare scales,indexes,and typologies.Give examples of each.

Likert scales are designed to be ______ in measurement.

The first step in assessing an index is:

The following items and scoring scheme were taken from the Minnesota Survey of Opinions.The four items were part of a series of items designed to assess attitudes toward education.In the index SA=strongly agree,A=agree,U=undecided, D=disagree,and SD=strongly disagree 1)A MAN CAN LEARN MORE BY WORKING FOUR YEARS THAN BY GOING TO SCHOOL. SA(5)A(4)U(3)D(2)SD(1) 2)THE MORE EDUCATION A MAN HAS,THE BETTER HE IS ABLE TO ENJOY LIFE. SA(1)A(2)U(3)D(4)SD(5) 3)EDUCATION HELPS A PERSON TO USE HIS LEISURE TIME TO BETTER ADVANTAGE. SA(1)A(2)U(3)D(4)SD(5) 4)EDUCATION IS OF NO HELP IN GETTING A JOB TODAY. SA(5)A(4)U(3)D(2)SD(1) These items illustrate a ____ question format:

Why should you perform bivariate and multivariate analyses of the items in your index?

A ____ scale is a measurement technique for determining the willingness of people to participate in social relations-of varying degrees of closeness-with other kinds of people.

Today,Likert scaling is commonly used in the creation of simple indexes in questionnaire design.

The coefficient of reproducibility is used with which scale?

A set of questionnaire items that Guttman scaled on one data set will usually Guttman scale on another data set.

Semantic differential scales employ judges to develop the scale

If an index fails to predict strongly the external validation items,then

Relationships between indicators in an index should be perfectly correlated

A Thurstone scale was constructed to measure creativity.The scale scores ranged from 1 to 13.If the scale was properly constructed we could conclude that