To Check or Not to Check? A Comment on the Contemporary Psychometrics (ConPsy) Checklist for the Analysis of Questionnaire Items

Abstract

In a recent paper, the first version of the contemporary psychometrics (ConPsy) checklist for assessing measurement tool quality has been published. This checklist aims to provide guidelines and references to researchers to assess measurement properties for newly developed measurement instruments. The ConPsy checklist recommends appropriate statistical methods for measurement instrument evaluation to guide researchers in instrument development and to support peer review. In this opinion article, I critically review some aspects of the checklist and question the usefulness of certain psychometric analyses in research practice.

Keywords

• psychometrics
• factor analysis
• assessment
• measurement
• checklist
• scale