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The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions: How Common Practices in Scale Construction Hurt Validity.
Article in Assessment, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Measuring planetary health knowledge: Development and psychometric evaluation of a taxonomy-based test.PloS one · 2026Article
- More than just noise: careless responding and its systematic effects on reliability, validity, and measurement invariance.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Application of the ant colony optimization algorithm for the construction of a short version of the German alcohol decisional balance scale.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- What you need to know about the world. Toward a taxonomy of planetary health knowledge.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A Novel Approach to Measuring an Old Construct: Aligning the Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of Cognitive Flexibility.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Article
- Model Specification Searches in Structural Equation Modeling Using Bee Swarm Optimization.Educational and psychological measurement · 2024Article
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Abstract
Sound scale construction is pivotal to the measurement of psychological constructs. Common item sampling procedures emphasize aspects of reliability to the disadvantage of aspects of validity, which are less tangible. We use a health knowledge test as an example to demonstrate how item sampling strategies that focus on either factor saturation or construct coverage influence scale composition and demonstrate how to find a trade-off between these two opposing needs. More specifically, we compile three 75-item health knowledge scales using
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