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You Can't Judge a Measure by Its Label: Teaching the Process of Instrumentation.

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Brockway, Jennifer Howard; Bryant, Fred B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998

Profiles a class exercise that teaches the importance of developing an accurate definition of a psychological construct (guilt, control, altruism). The more precise the definition, the easier it is to choose an appropriate technique to measure that construct. Discusses the Health and Psychosocial Instrument File, a recent measurement database.…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Critical Thinking, Definitions