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Ordinal Scale Development
Ordinal scale development is the systematic construction and validation of multi-item measurement instruments whose response options form an ordered but not necessarily equal-interval sequence — most commonly Likert-type formats (e.g., 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree). It applies psychometric techniques that respect the ordinal nature of items rather than treating them as continuous.
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Sources
- DeVellis, R. F. (2017). Scale Development: Theory and Applications (4th ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 978-1506341569
- Finney, S. J. & DiStefano, C. (2006). Non-normal and categorical data in structural equation modeling. In G. R. Hancock & R. O. Mueller (Eds.), Structural Equation Modeling: A Second Course (pp. 269–314). Information Age Publishing. link ↗