RES 751 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Effectiveness
RES 751 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Effectiveness
Effectiveness and Feasibility
Search the literature for information on what makes for an effective and feasible research study. Effective might mean designed to accomplish a specific purpose or to contribute to the I-O psychology body of knowledge. Feasible might mean having accessible populations, avoiding protected populations, and not being overambitious.
Divide your Learning Team into two groups: one to research effectiveness and the other to research feasibility.
Assemble two lists: one that includes how a study is effective and one that includes what to consider when determining if a study is feasible. Include sources.
Post your lists to the thread in the Main forum.
Respond to other teams’ worksheets.
Resource: Ch. 10 & 11 of the Miller et al. text
Locate a partner for this assignment.
Imagine that you and your partner have been hired as industrial-organizational psychology consultants to develop a series of instruments for company use.
Select one of the following instruments to develop for the client:
• A survey to measure employees’ attitudes toward teamwork
• A multi-rater/360-degree instrument to measure individual employee demonstration of key leadership behaviors
• A knowledge test to assess job candidate knowledge of basic computer skills
• A training evaluation form to measure training participant reactions to a 1-day communication skills program
Draft, in the following table, four items for the instrument you selected, using any survey or test item format in the Miller et al. text. Each item should be written at a different level of measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
Identify, in the following table, which descriptive statistics—specific measures of central tendency or variation—you could calculate for each item, given the item’s level of measurement.