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This reprinted article originally appeared in (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1987, 34[4], 481-489). (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1988-18854-001.) The design, development, and evaluation of scales for use in counseling psychology research are discussed. Methods of scale construction described include the Thurstone, Q-sort, rank-order methods, Likert, semantic differential, Guttman, Rasch, and external criterion methods. Strengths and weaknesses, advantages, and disadvantages are considered, and ways of evaluating newly developed scales are presented. Other issues such as measurement versus statistics, bandwidth versus fidelity, empirical versus rational methods, response bias, and multimethod measurement are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)