Checklists and Rating Scales

Checklists and Rating Scales

Discussion instructions:

The four methods covered this week for measuring personality include observations, interviews, checklists, and rating scales. For this assignment, focus on the use of checklists and rating scales as you create a posting that includes the following elements:

• comparisons and contrasts on the use of checklists and rating scales in assessing personality, which can include the types, strengths and weaknesses, reliability,
• validity, ethical concerns, or demographic issues of this method;
• explanation of when one of these methods might be preferred over the other; and
• explanation of the clinical judgment issues that might play a role in using these methods to assess personality.

Be sure to put all information in your own words, cite accordingly, and include a list of references used in APA format. Your post should be at least 300 words.

Sample Answer

Introduction

A checklist is a type of job aid used to reduce failure by compensating for potential limits of human memory and attention. It helps to ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out a task. A basic example is the “to do list.” A more advanced checklist would be a schedule, which lays out tasks to be done according to time of day or other factors. A primary task in checklist is documentation of the task and auditing against the documentation. A rating scale is a set of categories designed to elicit information about a quantitative or a qualitative attribute. In the social sciences, particularly psychology, common examples are the Likert response scale and 1-10 rating scales in which a person selects the number which is considered to reflect the perceived quality of a product……..