PSY 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Smallpox, Likert Scale, Summative Assessment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3307
• Professor: Elizabeth Kristjansson

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Can be used for two steps in item development. Test framework built from theory and empirical evidence. Reviewing theories and empirical evidence can also give ideas about items. Certain questions need to refer to the day, or the past week. Periods of a year or more can be used for major life events like buying a house, having a child, finishing your degree. But for questions that are less important (e. g. how often did you miss work due to illness), use past month. For example, depressive symptoms can vary from day to day or week to week. So, usually, want to refer to past week. Avoid words that trigger emotional response: creationism, pro-life, terrorism, avoid words that offend people. Poor: lack of immunization of the population for small pox is not a problem in ontario. Better: lack of small pox immunization is a problem in ontario.