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Historical and conceptual foundations of measurement in the human sciences: credos and controversies

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Routledge 2022 New YorkDescription: xxi, 358 p. ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780367225230
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.15195 B7H4
Summary: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences explores the assessment and measurement of nonphysical attributes that define human beings: abilities, personalities, attitudes, dispositions, and values. The proposition that human attributes are measurable remains controversial, as do the ideas and innovations of the six historical figures—Gustav Fechner, Francis Galton, Alfred Binet, Charles Spearman, Louis Thurstone, and S. S. Stevens—at the heart of this book. Across 10 rich, elaborative chapters, readers are introduced to the origins of educational and psychological scaling, mental testing, classical test theory, factor analysis, and diagnostic classification and to controversies spanning the quantity objection, the role of measurement in promoting eugenics, theories of intelligence, the measurement of attitudes, and beyond. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals in educational measurement and psychometrics will emerge with a deeper appreciation for both the challenges and the affordances of measurement in quantitative research. https://www.routledge.com/Historical-and-Conceptual-Foundations-of-Measurement-in-the-Human-Sciences/Briggs/p/book/9780367225230
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What is Measurement?
Chapter 2. Psychophysical Measurement: Gustav Fechner and the Just Noticeable Difference
Chapter 3. Whenever you Can, Count: Francis Galton and the Measurement of Individual Differences
Chapter 4. Anthropometric Laboratories, Regression, and the Cautionary Tale of Eugenics
Chapter 5. Mental Tests and Measuring Scales: The Innovations of Alfred Binet
Chapter 6. Measurement Error and the Concept of Reliability
Chapter 7. Measurement Through Correlation: Spearman’s Theory of Two Factors
Chapter 8. Theory vs. Method in the Measurement of Intelligence
Chapter 9. The Seeds of Psychometrics: Thurstone’s Subjective Units
Chapter 10. Representation, Operations, and the Scale Taxonomy of S. S. Stevens

Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences explores the assessment and measurement of nonphysical attributes that define human beings: abilities, personalities, attitudes, dispositions, and values.

The proposition that human attributes are measurable remains controversial, as do the ideas and innovations of the six historical figures—Gustav Fechner, Francis Galton, Alfred Binet, Charles Spearman, Louis Thurstone, and S. S. Stevens—at the heart of this book. Across 10 rich, elaborative chapters, readers are introduced to the origins of educational and psychological scaling, mental testing, classical test theory, factor analysis, and diagnostic classification and to controversies spanning the quantity objection, the role of measurement in promoting eugenics, theories of intelligence, the measurement of attitudes, and beyond.

Graduate students, researchers, and professionals in educational measurement and psychometrics will emerge with a deeper appreciation for both the challenges and the affordances of measurement in quantitative research.

https://www.routledge.com/Historical-and-Conceptual-Foundations-of-Measurement-in-the-Human-Sciences/Briggs/p/book/9780367225230

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