| Description |
xxii, 626 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Reflections on social measurement: how social scientists generate, modify, and validate indicators and scales -- SECTION ONE: METHODS FOR DATA COLLECTION -- Surveys, Tests, and Observational Scales -- How to get Valid Answers from Survey Questions: What we Learned from Asking about Sexual Behavior and the Measurement of Sexuality -- The SAT : Design Principles and Innovations of a Quintessential American Social Indicator -- Measurement as Cooperative Communication: What Research Participants Learn from Questionnaires -- Developing Observation Instruments and Arriving at Inter-rater Reliability for a Range of Contexts and Raters: The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales -- Studying Teacher Effectiveness: The Challenges of Developing Valid Measures -- Identifying Consumers' Compulsive Buying Tendencies: Lessons Learned for Measuring Consumer-related Phenomena -- SECTION TWO: THE CONTEXT OF MEASUREMENT -- Comparative, Cultural, Linguistic, and International Dimensions of Measurement -- Linguistic Factors in the Assessment of English Language Learners -- Measurement Issues in Cross-cultural Research -- Conceptualizing and Measuring Culture: Problems and solutions -- International Comparisons of Educational Attainment: Purposes, Processes, and Problems -- Measurement Across Time and Space -- Reflections on Measuring Behavior: Time and the Grid -- Approaches to Measuring Multi-dimensional Constructs across the Life-course: Operationalizing Depression over the Lifespan -- Description and Discovery in Socio-spatial Analysis: The Case of Space Syntax -- SECTION THREE: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT -- Minimizing Measurement Error -- Understanding the Intangibles of Measurement in the Social Sciences -- Towards a More Rigorous Scientific Approach to Social Measurement: Considering a Grounded Indicator Approach to Developing Measurement Tools -- Theorisation of Constructs -- Measuring Conceptualizations of Morality: Or How to Invent a Construct and Measure it too -- The Problem with Poverty: Definition, Measurement and Interpretation -- Critical and Ethical Perspectives -- Ethical Issues in Social Measurement -- Measuring is More than Assigning Numbers -- Is Social Measurement Possible, and is it Necessary? -- SECTION FOUR: THE REAL WORLD PRACTICE OF MEASUREMENT -- Sensitive Issues and the Difficult to Measure -- Sensitive Issues and the Difficulty to Measure: The Case of Measuring Child Sexual Abuse -- Indirect Measurement -- Improving the Practice of Measurement -- Increasing the Measurement Accuracy of Consumption Intentions -- Making Applied Measurement Effective and Efficient -- Contemporary Challenges of Longitudinal Measurement Using HRS Data -- Measuring the Dimensions of Social Capital in Developing Countries -- Administrative and Secondary Data and Performance Measurement -- The Use of Administrative Data to Answer Policy Questions: Secondary Data on Crime and the Problem with Homicide -- Assessing Performance of School Systems: The Measurement and Assessment Challenges of NCLB |
| Summary |
'The Handbook of Measurement' is a methodological resource which draws together contributions from the authors of the classic works in measurement studies of the past 25 years. It covers all core issues of measurement, with each chapter focusing on a different element |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Measurement -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Research -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Tucker, Eric, 1980-
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Viswanathan, Madhu.
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Walford, Geoffrey.
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| LC no. |
2009925933 |
| ISBN |
1412948142 (hbk.) |
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9781412948142 (hbk.) |
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