11  NURS 925: Psychometrics Course

This “chapter” contains links to the presentations and materials covered in the pychometric course of the curriculum, NURS 925.

11.1 Foundations of Modern Research Measurement

  • Slides

  • This presentation covers:

    • Theories and domain sampling
    • Types of measurement
    • A brief history of measurement
    • General concepts of good measurement
    • Likert response formats

11.2 Validity and Reliability

  • Slides

  • Note: This presentation is a PDF document

  • This presentation covers:

    • Historical conceptions of validity
    • Modern conception of validity
    • Reliability as measurement of true score
    • Types and measurments of reliability

11.3 Introduction to Factor Analysis & Exploratory Factor Analysis

  • Slides

  • This presentation covers:

    • Introduction to Factor Analysis
      • An Aside About Principal Component Analysis
    • Exploratory Factor Analysis
      • Concept of EFA
      • General Steps to Conducting EFAs

11.4 Confirmatory Factor Analysis

  • Slides

  • This presentation covers:

    • Review of Factor Analysis
      • EFA vs. CFA
    • Overall & Particulars of Conducting CFAs
    • Testing CFA Model Fit
    • A Few Words About Sample Size