JOURNAL OF THEO Volume 16 Issue 1 Understanding Development: A Weaknesses of Damon E. Campbell Else School of Manageme Millsaps College Craig Parks Department of Psycholog Washington State Univers Numerous researchers have called att relatively short history of the information Straub, Boudreau, & Gefen 2004; Str instrument development, it has now bec paper focuses on construct validity, supporting this type of validity when u analysis techniques with a focus on th these techniques by analyzing a sampl paper, we provide both researchers an analysis techniques. Keywords: Construct Validity, Quantitat Jerry Chang was the Senior Editor for th F INFORMATION TECHNOLO ORY AND APPLICATION Paper 3 pp. 25 – 56 April the Role of Theory on Instr An Examination of Strength f Discriminant Validity Ana Techniques Damon E. Campbell Else School of Management Millsaps College damon.campbell@millsaps.edu l ent John D. Wells Isenberg School of Mana University of Massachusett gy sity Abstract: tention to many important issues in instrument developm n systems (IS) academic research discipline (e.g., Petter, raub 1989). With the accumulation of knowledge relate come necessary to take a closer look at specific aspects specifically discriminant validity, and examines some using cross-sectional data. We examine strengths and w he role of theory and informed interpretation. We highligh le dataset where we theorize two constructs to be highly nd reviewers a greater understanding of the highlighted tive Analysis, Discriminant Validity, Average Variance Extr his paper. OGY ISSN: 1532-3416 2015 rument hs and alysis s agement ts, Amherst ment throughout the , Straub, & Rai 2007; ed to the process of of this process. This popular methods of weaknesses of these ht the applicability of correlated. With this d discriminant validity racted, χ 2 Analysis.