Robert F. DeVellis - Scale Development: Theory and Applications

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Names: DeVellis, Robert F., author.

Title: Scale development : theory and applications / Robert F. DeVellis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

Description: Fourth edition. | Los Angeles : SAGE, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015043839 | ISBN 9781506341569 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Scaling (Social sciences)

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Scale development is a rapidly evolving field with new approaches emerging and gaining greater traction. These changes have arisen from a variety of sources, including large-scale efforts to provide more standardized measurement tools across a wide range of contexts. On one hand, these changes are exciting and important. On the other, they make the revision of this text substantially more challenging. As with past editions, my goal is to present complex information in a way that will be accessible to a range of scholars. At the same time, with each revision, I have endeavored to update the material to reflect current trends in the field. Those two objectives at times are diametrically opposed, as some of the newest developments involve advanced and somewhat specialized concepts and methodologies. I have sought to resolve this dilemma by providing context for new advancements and by explicitly differentiating between narrowly and more broadly circumscribed measurement activities and the technical approaches that may suit each. Of course, I have confined my discussion of these issues to the scope and intention of a text that serves as an overview to psychometric approaches rather than a comprehensive review.

The end result has been that every chapter has new material added to it. In , Overview, my review of the history of measurement now includes a summary of how mental illnesses have been classified from ancient times to the present, with an emphasis on more recent activities. That discussion reveals both opportunities lost and others taken.