This course is an applied measurement course. Students will gain hands-on experience developing scales within the affective domain. By the end of this course, students will be able to: 
•	Develop draft scales under various historical measurement perspectives
•	Apply item writing guidelines
•	Perform response analyses and evaluate indices (dimensionality and reliability)
•	Describe various types of validity evidence
•	Demonstrate a foundational understanding of Rasch measurement

I. Historical Overview and General Item Writing Guidelines
a) How/why did the measurement theories advance? Where we are now draws on the lessons of the past
b) General item writing foundations: concepts applicable to all approaches
II. Thurstone Scales
a) Items represent the scale points; task sorting
b) Thurstone pilot analyses
c) Problems/constraints of the approach
III. Likert Scales
a) Each item response contributes to the scale position
b) Additional Item Writing Guidance
c) Likert pilot anayses
IV. Likert-Like
a) Popular modifications to the original theory
c) Modifications based on research versus convenience/lack of evidence
V. Principal Components Analysis
a) Critical differences between PCA, EFA, and CFA
b) Using PCA as a data reduction/item analysis technique
VI. Traditional Reliability Analysis
a) Coefficient alpha with item deleted
b) Common misconceptions regarding coefficient alpha
VII. Developing a Validity Argument via Evidence
VIII. Other Measurement Approaches
a) Semantic Differential
b) Guttman Scaling
c) Introduction to the Rasch Model
IX. Convening Expert Panels and Standard Setting