What are the General Issues in Scaling ?

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;92 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Scaling is considered to be the branch of measurement in which items are assigned according to a rule&period; It can also be stated as allocating meaningful numbers to an object&period; Most commonly many people found it difficult to understand scaling&period; Scaling is usually done on the text statements for example attitudes and believes&period; In order to present the text statements on scale&comma; numbers are assigned to such statements which are provided by the ruler&period;&&num;160&semi; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;According to a rule” means that the text statements as proceed to higher scale they become more constrained and limited with their design&period; Scaling is properly defined in general issues in scaling that briefly explains the distinctions between response format and a scale&period;&&num;160&semi; Responses are actually the feedback that is taken from the people in different forms for example questionnaires and by using different scales like interval scale&comma; ratio scale and ordinary scale etc&period; in this if one provides a response scale then it is not considered as scale because a scale involves the measures of the independent respondents in which numerical value be concluded&period; In actual scaling that is done for the research includes the proper formation of scales as well as the responses are gathered by the respondents&period; The responses cannot be presented as by assigning some scales for different items&period; Difference of a scale and response are describes as&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• The scale is concluded from the process where as the response are assembled on each and every question&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• Scale value is given to every object in scale while there is no connection of scale value for any item in responses&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• Responses are taken on every single object separately but scale involves the set of objects&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Purpose of Scaling <&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Actually the scaling is not only done to assign values to different objects but it is usually used for three different factors&semi;&bsol;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Testing Hypothesis&colon; <br &sol;><&sol;strong>Scaling is used for testing the hypothesis to know that either one dimensional or multidimensional concepts are used&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Exploration&colon; <br &sol;><&sol;strong>To know about the factors those are rated in the dimensions&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Scoring&colon; <br &sol;><&sol;strong>Scaling is applied for scoring the context or to allocate values for the participants&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Dimensions<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Dimensions in scale are considered as the number line in which the object can be easily presented&period; Dimensions are of two types<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;92 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• One-dimensional<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• Multidimensional <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">One-dimensional concept is very easy for the viewers to understand&period; Presentation is only on the basis of yes or no&comma; longer or smaller and taller or shorter etc&period; it is more preferably used by the examiners because it clearly explains the factors which are very close to the reality&period; One-dimensional method includes three important scaling as types that are Summative scaling&comma; Thurston scaling and Cumulative scaling&period; &lbrack;linkunit&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The concept of multidimensional involves more than one dimension and one dimensional concept provides foundation to the multidimensional concept&period; But if any of the projects is in nature multidimensional then it is not compiled through one-dimension&period; For example&comma; the measurement of the academic achievements is not stated in the single dimension&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">References<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• T&period; William&comma; &lpar;2001&rpar; general issues in scaling&period; <br &sol;>• www&period;socialresearchmethods&period;com&comma; accessed on April 10&comma; 2012&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;92 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;