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To that end they have included guidelines for reviewing and revising the questionnaire to enhance validity and reliability. They also show how to work effectively with stakeholders such as instruments designers, decision-makers, agency personnel, clients, and raters or respondents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFigures, Exhibits, Tables, and Instruments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface: Asking and Answering ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Authors xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Concepts 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Instruments and Social Inquiry 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Measurement 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Instrument Construction, Validity, and Reliability 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Application 95\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Purposeful Creativity: First Steps in the Development of an Instrument 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Pretesting 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Structure and Format of Selection Items 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Guidelines for Writing Selection Items 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Selection Items: Alternative Formats 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Supply Items: Open-Ended Questions 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Guidelines for Constructing Multi-Item Scales 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Organization and Administration 279\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Organizing the Instrument 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Administering the Instrument 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Computers and Instrument Construction 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Managing the Data and Reporting the Results 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 374\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 383\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDavid Colton\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D., is adjunct professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Graduate Studies in the program in Research, Statistics, and Evaluation, and in the Department of Health Care Administration, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert W. Covert\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D., is associate professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Graduate Studies in the program in Research, Statistics, and Evaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDesigning and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to creating effective surveys, polls, questionnaires, customer satisfaction forms, ratings, checklists, and other instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in easy-to-understand language, this important text provides a systematic and commonsense approach to developing instruments for data collection and analysis. 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