Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation Colton

Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and EvaluationAuthor(s): David Colton, Robert W. Covert\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780787987848, 978-0787987848\nSynopsis\nWritten in easy-to-understand language, this important text provides a systematic and commonsense approach to developing instruments for data collection and analysis. This book can be used by both those who are developing instruments for the first time and those who want to hone their skills, including students, agency personnel, program managers, and researchers. This book provides a thorough presentation of instrument construction, from conception to development and pre-testing of items, formatting the instrument, administration, and, finally, data management and presentation of the [url] the book, the authors emphasize how to create an instrument that will produce trustworthy and accurate data. To that end they ha.