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Individual Component: 10% of your final grade
In this component of the assignment you are describing the process that you used to construct your measure. Specifically,
you are writing an Introduction section and a Method section. These should be written entirely on your own
without help from your group members. This is where your provide the information from Part 4 above.
A few tip for your Introduction:
1. Provide an overview of what you are trying to accomplish in the paper (as a whole – in parts 1 and 2 of this major
project) and the steps you will take to accomplish it – this includes the literature review, definition and scale creation,
data collection, item analysis, and reduction of items to create your final scale.
2. Conduct a lit review
a) Include the table your group created
b) Write about the your evaluation of the existing scales (Part 4 above)
3. Provide a rational for why you are creating this new scale to measure your construct (base this on the evaluation above).
4. Provide your definition for the construct.
5. Assess the quality of past measurement attempts
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