Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780805820935 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

Norman Cliff; John A. Keats

Opis

This volume provides a background to ordinal theory as used to assess psychology tests and scales used to assist the interpretation of data.

Recenzje

"This book....aims to step back from the model-driven perspective which underlies almost all of modern statistics, to adopt a more elementary empiricist perspective....a welcome addition to the literature on the foundations of measurement in psychology."
—Short Book Reviews

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. The Purpose of Psychological Measurement. What Makes a Variable a Scale? Types of Assessment. Item Scores and Their Addition to Obtain Total Test Scores in the Case of Dichotomous Items. Item Scores and Their Addition to Obtain Total Test Scores in the Case of Polytomous Items. Dominance Analysis of Tests. Approaches to Ordering Things and Stimuli. Alternatives to Complete Paired Comparisons. The Unfolding Model. The Application of Ordinal Test Theory to Items in Tests Used in Cross-Cultural Comparisons. Appendices: Flow Chart for a Program to Carry Out a Complete Item Analysis of Items in a Test or Scale Using a Small Personal Computer. Statistical Tables.

O autorze

Cliff, Norman; Keats, John A.