The SAGE handbook of measurement
By: edited by Geoffrey Walford, Eric Tucker, and Madhu Viswanathan
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9781412948142
Subjects: Statistical methods; Meetmethoden; Handbooks, manuals; Research; Sociale wetenschappen; Methodology; Measurement; Social sciences
Description: '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: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: The SAT®: design principles and innovations of a quintessential American social indicator  -- Howard T. Everson; title: Measurement as cooperative communication: what research participants learn from questionnaires  -- Norbert Schwarz; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Linguistic factors in the assessment of English language learners  -- Jamal Abedi; title: Measurement issues in cross-cultural research  -- A. Timothy Church; title: Conceptualizing and measuring culture: problems and solutions  -- Louis Tay ; Sang Eun Woo ; Jennifer Klafehn ; Chi-yue Chiu; title: International comparisons of educational attainment: purposes, processes, and problems  -- David Phillips -- Measurement across time and space; title: Reflections on measuring behavior: time and the grid  -- Roger Bakeman; title: Approaches to measuring multi-dimension constructs across the life course: operationalizing depression over the lifespan  -- Brian Mezuk ; William W. Eaton; title: 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; title: Understanding the intangibles of measurement in the social sciences  -- Madhu Viswanathan; title: Towards a more rigorous scientific approach to social measurement: considering a grounded indicator approach to developing measurement tools  -- Eric Tucker -- Theorisation of constructs; title: Measuring conceptualisations of morality: or how to invent a construct and measure it too  -- Remo Ostini; title: The problem with poverty: definition, measurement and interpretation  -- Robert Walker ; Mark Tomlinson ; Glenn Williams -- Critical and ethical perspectives; title: Ethical issues in social measurement / Martin Bulmer ; Josephine Ocloo --; title: Measuring is more than assigning numbers  -- Stephen Gorard; title: 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; title: Sensitive issues and the difficulty to measure: the case of measuring child sexual abuse  -- Will Tucker ; Ross Cheit; title: Indirect measurement  -- David J. Bartholomew -- Improving the practice of measurement; title: Increasing the measurement accuracy of consumption intentions  -- Brian Wansink; title: Making applied measurement effective and efficient  -- Ujwal Kayandé; title: Contemporary challenges of longitudinal measurement using HRS data  -- John J. McArdle; title: Measuring the dimensions of social capital in developing countries  -- Veronica Nyhan Jones ; Michael Woolcock -- Administrative and secondary data and performance measurement; title: The use of administrative data to answer policy questions: secondary data on crime and the problem with homicide  -- Marc Riedel; title: Assessing performance of school systems: the measurement and assessment challenges of NCLB -- Sean Mulvenon.