Coming Full Circle in Standard Setting: A Commentary on Wyse

摘要

Full disclosure. For several years, I have taught a course in instrument development using Mark Wilson's Constructing Measures (2005) as the textbook. Most of my students are interested in constructs such as "student engagement," "self-efficacy for school administrators," and "happiness." Wilson's book emphasizes the use of construct maps to guide the development of instruments to measure constructs such as these. And it's a good thing. When forced to use a construct map, students often confront flaws and inconsistencies in the way they view their constructs. For those of us who have worked in measurement for some time, unidimensional construct maps are a natural way to measure latent variables.