APSY617-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Industrial and Organisational Psychology Measurement Issues

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

The objective of this course is to introduce and expand on measurement issues relevant within the field of Industrial and Organisational Psychology. Particular emphasis is placed on scale development, reliability analysis, validity assessment techniques, common method variance Issues, measurement bias issues, design issues, classical test theory. Critical thinking, relation of theory to practice, as well as reflection, both oral and written, will be strongly emphasized.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Construct definition and Item construction 20%
Course-related meme (in class discussion) 10%
4 Quizzes 20%
Scale Development Report 25%
Final Exam 25%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

DeVellis, R.F; Scale development: Theory and applications ; 4th; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2017 (or DeVellis, R.F. & Thorpe, C.T (2022). Scale development: Theory and applications. 5th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).

Recommended Reading

Fabrigar, Leandre R. , Wegener, Duane Theodore; Exploratory factor analysis ; Oxford University Press, 2012.

Shultz, K.S. & Whitney, D.J; Measurement theory in action ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.

Taylor, C., S; Validity and Validation ; Oxford, 2013.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,176.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 30

For further information see School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing .

All APSY617 Occurrences

  • APSY617-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025