The SAGE handbook of measurement /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros autores: Walford, Geoffrey., Tucker, Eric, 1980-, Viswanathan, Madhu.
Formato: eBook
Idioma:English
Fecha de publicación: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.