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Peer reviewedSchriesheim, Chester A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1981
This study provides support for the hypothesized effect of leniency on the discriminant validity of grouped questionnaire items. It was found that controlling for leniency resulted in a slight decrement in convergent validity but that discriminant validity was substantially improved. Implications for questionnaire validity and further research are…
Descriptors: Classification, Correlation, Questionnaires, Research Problems
Peer reviewedSchriesheim, Chester A.; Castro, Stephanie L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1996
The effects of the base referent or standard stimulus on scale values obtained in the magnitude estimation scaling of 34 frequency expressions were studied with 208 undergraduate students and 2 different referents ("sometimes" and "fairly many times"). Analysis indicates that the two referents yield statistically similar…
Descriptors: Estimation (Mathematics), Higher Education, Responses, Scaling
