Measurement in management science: an applied approach

 

Ementa: 

Measurement theory and applications for social sciences. Problems in social science measurement. Steps in scale development. Writing non-cognitive items (e.g. attitudes). Reliability and validity. Methods of assessing reliability. Forms of validity evidence. Exploratory Factor Analysis. Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Cross-cultural scale adaptation: adopting or adapting existing instruments. Assessing and testing cross-cultural measurement equivalence. Examples and applications.

 

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