Suppose you wanted to do a study in which class participation was a key variable

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Suppose you wanted to do a study in which class participation was a key variable -- you would have to be able to quantify it. Would you count the number of words spoken by each student, or the number of seconds spoken, or the time spent with arms in the air, or would you qualitatively assess the overall participation in a subjective scale or what? Can you see the challenge here? A reliable measurement is one that is consistently measured. If everyone in a room were asked how cold it was, you would expect to see many different responses; yet if you asked what the temperature was, you would expect to see identical responses because they would all read the thermostat.

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Now suppose we were conducting a study in which we need to measure Stress, Burnout and Happiness. Pick one of these variables and describe how you might measure it reliably. Feel free to use a specific example; describe the scale you would be using.

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Let's pick burnout to measure the mental health of a person. Stress, burnout and hapiness are three interrelated phenomenon.There are some measures for measuring burnout but I will prefer gold standard which is also called as Maslach Burnout Inventory. It measures three dimensions of burnout: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment. These three dimensions have different scales and measures to know the burnout of a person. Emotional exhaustion have 9 items where greater scale is for higher burnout, in the similar way depersonalization have 5 items which measures an unfeeling and impersonal response toward recipients of one's service, care, treatment, and instruction. Higher the scale means higher burnout. Personal accomplishment have 8 items which measures  feelings of competence and successful achievement in professional life, lower score means higher burnout.

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