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AN EXTENSION AND FIELD TEST OF THE RETRANSLATION METHOD FOR DEVELOPING RATING SCALES
Author(s) -
KAVANAGH MICHAEL J.,
DUFFY JOHN F.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1978.tb00455.x
Subject(s) - psychology , extension (predicate logic) , rating scale , context (archaeology) , field (mathematics) , test (biology) , reading (process) , scale (ratio) , test validity , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , paleontology , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , biology , programming language
The retranslation method for rating scale development was used to develop a scale to evaluate an educational television series designed to teach basal reading skills. This extension of the method, outside the context of job performance rating, was evaluated using both developmental and actual field use data. The results during the developmental stage of the method are generally supportive of the use of the technique in this situation; the results from the field test yielded mixed support.