An edition of The SAGE handbook of measurement
(2010)
The SAGE handbook of measurement
by Geoffrey Walford, Tucker, Eric, and Madhu Viswanathan
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SAGE Handbook of Measurement
2010, SAGE Publications, Incorporated
in English
1283835487 9781283835480
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Table of Contents
Reflections on social measurement: how social scientists generate, modify, and validate indicators and scales -- Eric Tucker ; Madhu Viswanathan ; Geoffrey Walford -- 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 -- Aniruddha Das ; Edward O. Laumann
The SAT®: design principles and innovations of a quintessential American social indicator -- Howard T. Everson
Measurement as cooperative communication: what research participants learn from questionnaires -- Norbert Schwarz
Developing observation instruments and arriving at inter-rater reliability for a range of contexts and raters: the early childhood environment rating scales -- Elena Soucacou ; Kathy Sylva
Studying teacher effectiveness: the challenges of developing valid measures -- Linda Darling-Hammond ; Jack Diechmann ; Ed Haertel ; Rachel Lotan ; Xiaoxia Newton ; Sandy Philipose ; Eliza Spang ; Ewart Thomas ; Peter Williamson
Identifying consumers' compulsive buying tendencies: lessons learned for measuring consumer-related phenomena -- Kent B. Monroe ; Nancy M. Ridgway ; Monika Kukar-Kinney -- Section two: The context of measurement -- Comparative, cultural, linguistic, and international dimensions
Linguistic factors in the assessment of English language learners -- Jamal Abedi
Measurement issues in cross-cultural research -- A. Timothy Church
Conceptualizing and measuring culture: problems and solutions -- Louis Tay ; Sang Eun Woo ; Jennifer Klafehn ; Chi-yue Chiu
International comparisons of educational attainment: purposes, processes, and problems -- David Phillips -- Measurement across time and space
Reflections on measuring behavior: time and the grid -- Roger Bakeman
Approaches to measuring multi-dimension constructs across the life course: operationalizing depression over the lifespan -- Brian Mezuk ; William W. Eaton
Description and discovery in socio-spatial analysis: the case of space syntax -- Bill Hillier ; Noah Raford -- Section three: Fundamental issues in measurement -- Minimizing measurement error
Understanding the intangibles of measurement in the social sciences -- Madhu Viswanathan
Towards a more rigorous scientific approach to social measurement: considering a grounded indicator approach to developing measurement tools -- Eric Tucker -- Theorisation of constructs
Measuring conceptualisations of morality: or how to invent a construct and measure it too -- Remo Ostini
The problem with poverty: definition, measurement and interpretation -- Robert Walker ; Mark Tomlinson ; Glenn Williams -- Critical and ethical perspectives
Ethical issues in social measurement / Martin Bulmer ; Josephine Ocloo --
Measuring is more than assigning numbers -- Stephen Gorard
Is social measurement possible, and is it necessary? -- Martyn Hammersley -- 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 -- Will Tucker ; Ross Cheit
Indirect measurement -- David J. Bartholomew -- Improving the practice of measurement
Increasing the measurement accuracy of consumption intentions -- Brian Wansink
Making applied measurement effective and efficient -- Ujwal Kayandé
Contemporary challenges of longitudinal measurement using HRS data -- John J. McArdle
Measuring the dimensions of social capital in developing countries -- Veronica Nyhan Jones ; Michael Woolcock -- 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 -- Marc Riedel
Assessing performance of school systems: the measurement and assessment challenges of NCLB -- Sean Mulvenon.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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