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Choices in operationalization
Indexes and scales
Index construction
Scale construction
Conceptualization
Conceptualization
Nominal definition
Operational definition
Measurements in organizations
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Conceptualization:
Operationalization:
Choices in Operationalization
Range variation
Range in Variation
Examples:
Levels of Measurement
Variable
Example
Qualities of variables:
Attributes
Exhaustive
Mutually exclusive
Nominal scales
Ordinal scales
Rank-order
More, less, or the same
Interval scales
Ratio scales
Common Characteristics:
Index Construction
Item selection
Bivariate relations
Multivariate relations
Index scoring
Range of variation
Weights (Equal or Differential)
Item selection
Face validity
Uni-dimensionality
General or Specific
Variance
Bivariate Relationships
Percentage tables
Correlation coefficients
4.
Index Validation
External validation
Bad index vs Bad validators
Scale construction
Scale Construction
Likert scaling
Semantic differential
Guttman scaling
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Qualification
Male or Female
Matric; Bachelors; Masters; Doctorate
Administrative department
Likert Scaling
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