NURS 630 Advanced Measurement

Credits: 3
This course focuses on advanced measurement. Students will learn theories and psychometric assumptions integral to selecting and developing measures. Students will acquire in-depth understanding of common approaches to reliability including Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory, and Item Response Theory, and the applicability of each to measurement in health research. Students will develop skill in evaluating items, examining and interpreting reliability, and selecting approaches to establish validity, including content, criterion-related, and construct validity. This course also will cover exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and multi-trait/multi-method matrix approaches to validity testing.

Graded: A-F
May be taken only once for credit
Also offered as: CPSY 630