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Construct development and scale creation are important for statistical analysis to measure characteristics in a population. Tests can help businesses assess job applicants and identify how employees perform tasks. A valid scale accurately measures the intended construct and is reliable, easy to use, and understandable. When creating a new test, tentative scales may be proposed. This paper will detail the norms, reliability, number of participants, characteristics of participants, how validity was determined, item selection methods, and how items were evaluated for the instrument used to measure working memory in payroll calculation.

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Intro & Conclusion

Construct development and scale creation are important for statistical analysis to measure characteristics in a population. Tests can help businesses assess job applicants and identify how employees perform tasks. A valid scale accurately measures the intended construct and is reliable, easy to use, and understandable. When creating a new test, tentative scales may be proposed. This paper will detail the norms, reliability, number of participants, characteristics of participants, how validity was determined, item selection methods, and how items were evaluated for the instrument used to measure working memory in payroll calculation.

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Introduction

Construct development and scale creation are important procedures of statistical


examination in order to calculate specific characteristics in a population. Within one's place of
employment, one's WM can be slow, incorrect, or inconsistent within the task performance.
Companies can use a test to assess applicants for positions like accounting. Tests can assist a
business and look for an employee's type of performance, (Cohen, & Swerdlik, 2010). A major
objective of the scale development is to make a valid measure of an underlying construct,
(Cohen, & Swerdlik, 2010). A well-constructed scale has good reliability, this is because of
internal reliability and the reproducibility over time along with the validity, this would be what is
being measured, (Cohen, & Swerdlik, 2010). Furthermore, a good scale is easy to administer and
to comprehend. When creating a new questionnaire, tentative scales may or may not be
proposed, (Cohen, & Swerdlik, 2010). During the course of this paper, Team D will go into detail
concerning the norm in the instrument used, which reliability measures were used, number of
individuals the test was given too, the characteristics of the individuals, to whom the instrument
was generalized, how validity is established, methods used for the selection, if cut-off scores
were established, and how item selection will be evaluated.

Conclusion
A significant factor in the creation of a scale is that it measures the construct it was
intended. The scale must provide valid and reliable results. Moreover, the scale must be easy to
administer by those administering the test and straightforwardly understood by test takers,
(Cohen, Swerdlik, & Sturman, 2013). Assessments are often used to challenge a persons
knowledge. The illustration established by this paper designs a construct that samples working

memory when calculating payroll. Once reliability and validity are established, the results may
be analyzed and generalized to particular populations. This paper has inspected in detail the norm
in the instrument, reliability measures, the number of persons the test was given too, the
personalities of the people to whom the instrument was generalized, how validity was
established, methods used for the selection, cut-off scores, and how item selection was evaluated.

References
Cohen, R. J., & Swerdlik, M. E. (2010). Psychological testing and assessment:
An introduction to tests and measurement (7th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Cohen, R. J., Swerdlik, M. E, & Sturman, E. D. (2013). Psychological testing and assessment:
An introduction to tests and measurement (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

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