A NOTE ON THE COMPARABILITY OF ALTERNATIVE SCORING METHODS FOR THE INSTITUTIONAL FUNCTIONING INVENTORY
Rodney T. Hartnett · Journal of Educational Measurement · 1971
Alternative methods of scoring the Institutional Functioning Inventory, a new measure of college environments, were compared. Institutional means obtained by the standard psychometric method–i.e., scoring each person's response to each item and then computing group means–were correlated with institutional means obtained via the “66+/33‐” method used for the College & University Environment Scales. The alternative scoring methods yield essentially the same information, including scale intercorrelations and validity. Reasons for preferring the traditional psychometric scoring technique are offered.