This article reports on the development of an attitudinal survey instrument, Instrument to Measure Predisposition toward Collective Decision-Making and its testing for validity and reliability. Included in the report is a review of the pedagogical and theoretical concerns that led to the development of the instrument, the description of the validity test, and a description of the reliability test which relies on the Cramer's V coefficient test. Finally the article gives an item-by-item reliability score rundown.
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