IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prochp/978-3-319-74173-4_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Measurement and Measurement Scales

In: Modernizing the Academic Teaching and Research Environment

Author

Listed:
  • Serene Dalati

    (Arab International University)

Abstract

This chapter examines measurement and measurement scales in business research. Measurement is defined in terms of the relationship to related factors and brief illustration of variables and types of data provided, differentiating between scientific terms, including concepts, constructs and operational definitions. An examination of measurement levels, including nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio levels, is provided. The chapter examines the measurement of attitudes distinguishing how they are form by a variety of forces, including feeling, thinking and personal experiences and values, resulting from behaviour. Several factors, related to measurement scale, need to be considered before making the application decision of a measurement scale. The chapter also examines three types of measurement scales including rating, ranking and categorization.

Suggested Citation

  • Serene Dalati, 2018. "Measurement and Measurement Scales," Progress in IS, in: Jorge Marx Gómez & Sulaiman Mouselli (ed.), Modernizing the Academic Teaching and Research Environment, pages 79-96, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-319-74173-4_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74173-4_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Daniela Roxana Vuță & Eliza Nichifor & Ioana Bianca Chițu & Gabriel Brătucu, 2022. "Digital Transformation—Top Priority in Difficult Times: The Case Study of Romanian Micro-Enterprises and SMEs," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-14, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-319-74173-4_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.