For this assignment you will create a 5-question test to measure one of the psychological characteri

For this assignment you will create a 5-question test to measure one of the psychological
characteristics from a list provided. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word analysis of the process of
developing your scale, containing the following information:
1) Choose a construct you would like to measure from the following list:
a) Introversion-Extraversion
b) Test Anxiety
c) Social Phobia
d) Self-Esteem
e) Masculinity-Femininity (also called Androgyny)
f) Emotional Intelligence
g) Conscientiousness
h) Sociability
i) Flexibility/Adaptability
2) Create an operational definition of your construct using at least three peer-reviewed
journal articles as references. Be sure to cite these references in the text when you
present your operational definition.
3) Select and list topics for five items used to sample the domain. (They can be your own
ideas or topics found in your references. The five test items will measure these five
topics. If you did not write them, give a citation indicating where you found them.)
4) Select a format for your items (multiple choice, numerical rating scale, Likert scale,
true/false, etc.) that is appropriate for the construct you are measuring. Justify your
choice. Explain how you plan to score the individual items and compute each person’s
total score on the assessment.
5) Format the items into an instrument with which you would query respondents. Justify
whether this is an interview or self-report instrument. Put your instrument on a page by
itself at the end of your assignment.
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— For the remainder of the assignment, describe your plans for an initial tryout of your little
test. Assume that you plan to give your five-item scale to a sample of people, and to collect
their scores (in other words, you will give a pilot test). You plan to use the information
from the pilot test scores to determine the norms for the scale, to determine its reliability
and validity, and to determine whether the items are measuring effectively. Note that you
do not have to actually perform this pilot test. Simply describe what you would plan to do.
Because these are plans, the remainder of the paper should be written in the
future tense. — ……. …..