Research programme
Instrument development and validation
Building an instrument from construct blueprint through piloting to structure, invariance and reference data.
- Studies
- 6
- Span
- 2018 to 2026
- Published
- 2
- Under way
- 4
Studies in this programme
Under review2026
A short form of the Cultural Intelligence Scale
Structure, fairness and a brief form of the most used cultural intelligence measure, in 1,459 people.
Collecting data2026
Do people know how AI literate they are?
Self-reported AI literacy against measured AI literacy, in the same people.
Collecting data2026
Reference data for the instruments published here
Building our own reference distributions from the tests on this site.
In development2026
VALORA: a work values instrument
Our own work values scale, built from blueprint to reference data.
Published2025
The neutral midpoint in rating scales
What the middle option on a rating scale actually captures, and what offering it does to the data.
Published2018
Testing for measurement invariance with latent class analysis
The method chapter: how to run an invariance test in a latent class framework.
Publications from this programme
- 2025Neither agree nor disagree: use and misuse of the neutral response category in Likert-type scalesMetron 83(1), 111-140Article
- 2024Simultaneous latent class analysis across groupsEncyclopaedia of Quality of Life ResearchChapter
- 2018Testing for measurement invariance with latent class analysisCross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and ApplicationsChapter