Gary Maranell

Scaling (eBook, PDF)

A Sourcebook for Behavioral Scientists

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the obvious importance of measurement in any scientific endeavor, few students of the social sciences receive adequate training in the principles and problems of assigning numerical values to the subjects, objects, events, groups and operations they study, and still less in the process of translating theoretical ideas and concepts into variables. This kind of casualness with respect to measurement is often in marked contrast to their methodically designed research, which has grown out of subtle and sophisticated theoretical consideration.

Scaling is intended to remedy this deficiency by providing a broad and detailed description of the major processes for developing measurement scales. The chapters, which include both classics in the field and the best of modern work, require no great mathematical sophistication, and go well beyond the conventional study of attitudes to the more general uses of scaling. They enable the student and researcher to examine the development of measures of scalability and the problems and weaknesses they present, to become familiar with the development of tests of significance for reproducibility and scalability and the need for them, and to examine the lively history of the subject and experience the excitement that can be secured from sharing with a creative author the first report of his insight.

Part One presents a series of general articles that deal in philosophic terms with the problem of measurement, with what is meant by measurement and scaling as well as the notions underlying the process of measuring. Part Two deals with the scaling methods developed by L. L. Thurstone, including paired comparison scaling, equal-appearing interval scaling, and successive interval scaling. The third part focuses upon scalogram analysis, presenting the background, rationale and procedures for Guttman scaling. The fourth part is concerned with summated rating, or Likert scaling. Part Five is a consideration of unfold

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 455
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351492072
• Artikelnr.: 48800850

Autorenporträt

Gary Maranell

Inhaltsangabe

I: Measurement and Scaling
1: Measurement
2: Measurement
3: Measurement Scales and Statistical Models
II: Thurstonian Methods
4: Psychophysical Analysis
5: A Law of Comparative Judgment
6: Paired Comparison Scaling Procedures
7: Circular Triads, the Coefficient of Consistence, and the Coefficient of Agreement
8: Optimal Orders in the Method of Paired Comparisons
9: Paired Comparison Attitude Scales
10: The Method of Equal-Appearing Intervals
11: The Method of Successive Intervals
III: Scalogram Analysis
12: An Overview of the Contributions to Scaling and Scale Theory
13: The Basis for Scalogram Analysis
14: Measurement of Reproducibility
15: A Note on Statistical Significance of Scalogram
16: Computer Generated Data and the Statistical Significance of Scalogram
17: A Review and Comparison of Simple Statistical Tests for Scalogram Analysis
18: A Note of Extreme Caution on the Use of Guttman Scales
IV: Summated Rating Methods
19: The Method of Constructing an Attitude Scale
20: Criteria for an Attitude Scale
21: A Note on the Scale Product and Related Methods of Scoring Attitude Scales
22: A Comparison of Four Methods of Scoring an Attitude Scale in Relation to its Reliability and Validity
V: Unfolding Theory
23: Some Aspects of the Metatheory of Measurement
24: Psychological Scaling without a unit of Measurement
25: A Real Example of Unfolding
26: Some Applications of Unfolding Theory to Fertility Analysis
VI: Related Materials
27: A Technique for the Construction of Attitude Scales
28: A Technique for Improving Cumulative Scales
29: A Scale for Developmental Processes
30: The Assignment of Numbers to Rank Order Categories
31: On the Statistical Treatment of Football Numbers