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Following the previous question, we have searched the MEL Outcome Indicator Bank and found that some scales have reverse-scored items. Could you please give us some advice on the calculation of the scores of such scale?

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Moson Yiu
6 October 2022
Following the previous question, we have searched the MEL Outcome Indicator Bank and found that some scales have reverse-scored items. Could you please give us some advice on the calculation of the scores of such scale?

Following the previous question, we have searched the MEL Outcome Indicator Bank and found that some scales have reverse-scored items. Could you please give us some advice on the calculation of the scores of such scale?

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6 October 2022

Glad to be helpful. Please feel free to ask me questions.

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Moson Yiu
6 October 2022

Got it! Thanks so much for your detailed reply!

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6 October 2022

You may need to first code the positively and negatively worded questions separately, and then perform reverse-scoring for negatively worded questions and finally add up and take an average of all item scores and produce the final scale score.

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