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Granberg-Rademacker, J. Scott – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2010
The extensive use of survey instruments in the social sciences has long created debate and concern about validity of outcomes, especially among instruments that gather ordinal-level data. Ordinal-level survey measurement of concepts that could be measured at the interval or ratio level produce errors because respondents are forced to truncate or…
Descriptors: Intervals, Rating Scales, Surveys, Markov Processes