Instruments and Measures for Health, Education, and Sport Research

Dear Colleagues,

Effective instruments and measures are vital for research in the fields of health, education and sport. Many tools have been proposed in the literature, but in various cases, information is still lacking as regards their validity and reliability. Meanwhile, the need to develop brief and time-efficient measures has been on the rise in order to avoid putting excessive demands on respondents, along with all the associated effects on the economic viability of the research and on the quality of the data. Moreover, many of the existing instruments have only been validated in specific national contexts and it has been proven necessary to assess their psychometric properties in different linguistic and cultural settings. In many emerging research fields, it is also necessary to develop and validate self-report measures for investigating new constructs that have been proposed in the context of recent theoretical approaches. This Special Issue therefore calls for papers that are intended to remedy these gaps in health, education and sport research. Recommended topics include the following, but are not necessarily limited to these:

• reports on advances in the knowledge of the psychometric properties of existing instruments;
• development and validation of brief and/or time-efficient versions of existing measures;
• investigation of the psychometric properties of scales and questionnaires in different national or linguistic contexts;
• examination of the measurement invariance of scales across subpopulations (e.g., across genders or immigrant backgrounds);
• systematic reviews/meta-analyses that bring together existing evidence on the validity and reliability of instruments in a specific domain;
• development and validation of measures of novel constructs within emerging theoretical approaches;
• development and validation of assessment tools based on text and content analysis (e.g., dictionaries and codebooks);
• development and validation of observational protocols;
• development and validation of new technologically based assessment tools (e.g., virtual reality, mobile apps).

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Healthcare.

Dr. Fabio Alivernini
Dr. Federica Galli
Dr. Sara Manganelli
Guest Editors

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