The Servant Leadership Survey: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure

This chapter describes in detail the process used to develop and validate a scale that measures servant leadership. The steps covered include construct identification from previous studies, review of previously proposed and developed measures, item selection, survey development, collection of data, scale identification, and evaluation of convergent, discriminant, predictive validity. The chapter provides a hands-on example of the steps required for scale measure development and assessment and includes description of the mechanics involved in completing each step of this process.

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Development and Validation of a New Multidimensional Measure of Inspiration: Associations with Risk for Bipolar Disorder

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0091669 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. e91669 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Steven Jones ◽

Alyson Dodd ◽

June Gruber

Keyword(s):

Bipolar Disorder ◽

Multidimensional Measure ◽

Development And Validation

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Survey Instrument Validity Part II: Validation of a Survey Instrument Examining Athletic Trainers' Knowledge and Practice Beliefs Regarding Exertional Heat Stroke

Athletic Training Education Journal ◽

10.4085/1947-380x-6.1.36 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 36-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Laura J. Burton ◽

Stephanie M. Mazerolle

Keyword(s):

Athletic Trainers ◽

Heat Stroke ◽

Survey Instrument ◽

Survey Development ◽

Exertional Heat Stroke ◽

Instrument Validity ◽

Practice Behaviors ◽

Knowledge And Practice ◽

Survey Research Methods ◽

Development And Validation

Context: Instrument validation is an important component to sound survey research methods. Objective: The purpose of this article is to discuss the process of developing and validating an instrument to investigate an athletic trainer's attitudes and behaviors regarding the recognition and treatment of exertional heat stroke. Background: Following up from our initial paper, which discussed the process of survey instrument design and validation, we present the practical application of those general guidelines as described by Netemeyer and colleagues. Description: There are four basic steps to developing a valid survey instrument: (1) defining the construct, (2) item development and judgment, (3) designing and conducting studies to develop a survey, and (4) finalizing the instrument. Following these steps, we present our survey instrument used to evaluate an athletic trainer's knowledge and practice beliefs regarding exertional heat stroke. Conclusions: Following the process of survey development and validation, we were able to develop an instrument to help understand attitudes held by athletic trainers regarding appropriate clinical practice behaviors in the treatment of exertional heat stroke.

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Measuring Reading Strategy Use

10.35542/osf.io/f6vu9 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Anthony Clairmont

Keyword(s):

Instrument Development ◽

Reading Strategies ◽

Strategy Use ◽

Comprehension Strategies ◽

Sentential Context ◽

Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽

Multidimensional Measure ◽

Adolescent Readers ◽

Academic Texts ◽

Development And Validation

This study describes the development and validation of a multidimensional measure of preadolescent and adolescent readers’ abilities to apply reading comprehension strategies necessary for understanding challenging academic texts. The Strategy Use Measure (SUM) was designed with the intention of being pedagogically informative to the increasingly multilingual student population in the U.S. in grades 6 through 8. The SUM aims to measure four areas of knowledge and skill that are widely purported to support the use of reading strategies: (a) morphological awareness, (b) knowledge of cognates, (c) ability to relate micro- and macro- ideas within a text, and (d) the ability to use intra- and inter-sentential context clues for defining unfamiliar words. The test was developed following a principled, iterative process to instrument development, employing Rasch models and qualitative investigations to test hypotheses related to the instrument’s validity. Findings suggest promising evidence for the validity and fairness of this multidimensional measure.

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