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Created: July 23 2002
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Teaching Essay Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, July 2002.
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This essay is designed to proffer a review of the methods techniques you have studied. To that end we offer this link to a current website at Cardiff University. Scale construction is a traditional empirical technique. Scales you may have encountered are the Bogardus scale (also known as a Guttman scale), and the Likert scale.