Guideline & Materials

In the following, you find instructions for creating a documentation of a measurement instrument in ZIS, format templates (for the documentation and the instrument), tutorials for performing common analyses within the development and validation of measurement instruments, and all templates for applying for the DTK certificate (DIN Screen Checklist and Self-declaration).

Guideline

• ZIS Publication Guide (doi:10.6102/pubguide2.1.English): This guide to documentation also explains various analyses that are common for the development and validation of measurement instruments.
• Survey Guideline: This guideline consists of a checklist that assists you to ensure the completeness of the documentation.

Format templates

Please document your measurement instrument in English, regardless of its language, to make it more visible to the international scientific community.

• Documentation (*.docx); Answer sheet (*.docx)

Tutorials to conduct the analyses

• R Code
• Mplus Code
• Stata Code
• SPSS Code

Templates TBS-DTK Transparency Certificate

• DIN SCREEN Checkliste 1, Version 3 (English-language version)
• Self-declaration

Please send the DIN SCREEN Checklist 1, Version 3, the completed and signed self-declaration (as a scan), and the ZIS documentation of your measurement instrument (procedural information) to the chairperson of the DTK (currently Prof. Dr. Martin Kersting Martin@Kersting-internet.de) to apply for the certification.