Spring 2027

Measurement in Health Research

Explores major issues in developing, testing, and using research instruments, focusing on measurement theories, scaling, reliability, and validity in health research.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Wan-Chin Kuo

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 3.91 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explore theories of measurement and scaling and their application to instrument development.

  • Identify and define the various properties of measurement tools in science and critique their application.

  • Demonstrate skill in testing various forms of reliability of health research instruments.

  • Demonstrate skill in testing various forms of validity of health research instruments.

  • Demonstrate skill in evaluating health research instruments for practical feasibility, appropriateness for intended populations, generalizability, and sensitivity in detecting differences among groups or change over time.

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Prerequisites

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  • Graduate/professional standing
NURSING 805

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

WAN-CHIN KUO is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 3.91 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Links between concepts, variables, and measures
  • Theories of measurement and scaling
  • Reliability and validity testing

Skills

  • Testing reliability and validity of health research instruments
  • Developing and using research instruments
  • Evaluating health research instruments for feasibility and appropriateness

Grades

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NURSING 805 · Spring 2027

Measurement in Health Research

Recorded 2026-10-29
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-29

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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