1st Edition
Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences
240 Pages
by
Psychology Press
240 Pages
by
Psychology Press
220 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies. It is based on the assumptions of ordinal statistics as explained in Norman Cliff's 1996 Ordinal Methods for Behavioral Data Analysis. It provides the necessary background on ordinal measurement to permit its use to assess psychological and... Read more
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.
Biography
Cliff, Norman; Keats, John A.
"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."
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