Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 509 pages) : illustrations |
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Sage classics ; 3 |
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Sage classics ; v. 3
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Contents |
pt. I. Validity of Attitude and Personality Tests. 1. Types of Validity: Construct, Trait, or Discriminant Validity. 2. Multitrait-Multimethod Validity Matrix. 3. Does the Method of Measurement Add Irrelevancies or Does It Dilute? 4. The Current Status of Research on the Multitrait-Multimethod Validity Matrix. 5. The Contemporary Philosophy of Science Appropriate to the Multitrait-Multimethod Validity Matrix. 6. Biases in Attitude and Personality Scales -- pt. II. Indirect Measures. 7. Fifteen Validity Issues Affecting All Measures. 8. Indirect Attitude Measures. 9. Seating Patterns as an Attitude Index -- pt. III. Qualitative and Ethnographic Approaches. 10. Qualitative Research Methods in Program Evaluation. 11. The Qualitative Case Study. 12. Using the Anthropologist's Informants. 13. The Translation of Personality and Attitude Tests. 14. Field-Manual Anthropology -- pt. IV. The Use of Administrative Records |
Summary |
This text includes arguments as to why qualitative approaches belong with quantitative ones. It also gives a debate with deconstructionists and social constructionists on measuring validity |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-488) and indexes |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Russo, M. Jean.
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ISBN |
1412985854 (ebook) |
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9781412985857 (ebook) |
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(cloth ; alk. paper) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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(cloth ; alk. paper) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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