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Video Resources

Video 1: Measurement Reliability Versus Measurement Validity

Learning Objective: 3-5: How to assess the reliability and validity of measures.

Description: Animated description of the basics of measurement reliability and validity, with examples.

Video 2: Improving Measurement Reliability

Learning Objective: 3-5: How to assess the reliability and validity of measures.

Description: Animated description of measurement reliability and ways to improve reliability.

Web Resources

Web 1: Amoeba Web

Learning Objective: 3-4: Different types of measures, including questionnaires, unobtrusive, and physiological measures.

Description: Includes links to a variety of questionnaires assessing aggression, anxiety, self-efficacy, and so on.

Web 2: Psychological Scales for Student Use

Learning Objective: 3-4: Different types of measures, including questionnaires, unobtrusive, and physiological measures.

Description: Provides links to questionnaires assessing situational self-esteem, life satisfaction, procrastination, and other psychological constructs.

Data sets

Practice recoding, checking reliability, and computing scale scores with the data sets available on the “Datasets” tab.