The SAGE Handbook of Measurement
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The SAGE Handbook of Measurement

  1. 648 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The SAGE Handbook of Measurement

About this book

The Sage Handbook of Measurement is a unique methodological resource in which Walford, Viswanathan and Tucker draw together contributions from leading scholars in the social sciences, each of whom has played an important role in advancing the study of measurement over the past 25 years. Each of the contributors offers insights into particular measurement related challenges they have confronted and how they have addressed these.

Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of measurement, so that the handbook as a whole covers the full spectrum of core issues related to design, method and analysis within measurement studies. The book emphasises issues such as indicator generation and modification, the nature and conceptual meaning of measurement error, and the day-to-day processes involved in developing and using measures.

The Handbook covers the full range of disciplines where measurement studies are common: policy studies; education studies; health studies; and business studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Contributors
  4. 1Reflections on Social Measurement
  5. SECTION I - Methods for Data Collection
  6. 2 How to Get Valid Answers from Survey Questions
  7. 3 The SAT®: Design Principles and Innovations of a Quintessential American Social Indicator
  8. 4 Measurement as Cooperative Communication
  9. 5 Developing Observation Instruments and Arriving at Inter-rater Reliability for a Range of Contexts and Raters
  10. 6 Studying Teacher Effectiveness
  11. 7 Identifying Consumers’ Compulsive Buying Tendencies
  12. SECTION II - The Context of Measurement
  13. 8 Linguistic Factors in the Assessment of English Language Learners
  14. 9 Measurement Issues in Cross-cultural Research
  15. 10 Conceptualizing and Measuring Culture
  16. 11International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
  17. 12 Reflections on Measuring Behavior: Time and the Grid
  18. 13 Approaches to Measuring Multi-dimension Constructs across the Life Course
  19. 14 Description and Discovery in Socio-spatial Analysis
  20. SECTION III - Fundamental Issues in Measurement
  21. 15 Understanding the Intangibles of Measurement in the Social Sciences
  22. 16 Towards a More Rigorous Scientific Approach to Social Measurement
  23. 17 Measuring Conceptualisations of Morality
  24. 18 The Problem with Poverty: Definition, Measurement and Interpretation
  25. 19 Ethical Issues in Social Measurement
  26. 20 Measuring is More Than Assigning Numbers
  27. 21 Is Social Measurement Possible, and Is It Necessary?
  28. SECTION IV - The Real World Practice of Measurement
  29. 22 Sensitive Issues and the Difficulty to Measure
  30. 23 Indirect Measurement
  31. 24 Increasing the Measurement Accuracy of Consumption Intentions
  32. 25 Making Applied Measurement Effective and Efficient
  33. 26 Contemporary Challenges of Longitudinal Measurement Using HRS Data
  34. 27 Measuring the Dimensions of Social Capital in Developing Countries
  35. 28 The Use of Administrative Data to Answer Policy Questions:
  36. 29 Assessing Performance of School Systems
  37. Author Index
  38. General Index