The Sage handbook of measurement / editores Geoffrey Walford, Eric Tucker y Madhu Viswanathan.

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Part one. Methods for data collection ; 2. How to get Valid Answers from Survey Questions: What we Learned from Asking about Sexual Behavior and the Measurement of Sexuality ; 3.The SAT : Design Principles and Innovations of a Quintessential American Social Indicator ; 4. Measurement as Cooperative Communication: What Research Participants Learn from Questionnaires ; 5. Developing Observation Instruments and Arriving at Inter-rater Reliability for a Range of Contexts and Raters: The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales ; 6. Studying Teacher Effectiveness: The Challenges of Developing Valid Measures ; 7. Identifying Consumers' Compulsive Buying Tendencies: Lessons Learned for Measuring Consumer-related Phenomena ; Part two. The context of measurement ; 8. Linguistic Factors in the Assessment of English Language Learners ; 9. Measurement Issues in Cross-cultural Research ; 10. Conceptualizing and Measuring Culture: Problems and solutions ; 11. International Comparisons of Educational Attainment: Purposes, Processes, and Problems ; 12. Reflections on Measuring Behavior: Time and the Grid ; 13. Approaches to Measuring Multi-dimensional Constructs across the Life-course: Operationalizing Depression over the Lifespan ; 14. Description and Discovery in Socio-spatial Analysis: The Case of Space Syntax ; Part three. Fundamental issues in measurement ; 15. Understanding the Intangibles of Measurement in the Social Sciences ; 16. Towards a More Rigorous Scientific Approach to Social Measurement: Considering a Grounded Indicator Approach to Developing Measurement Tools ; 17. Measuring Conceptualizations of Morality: Or How to Invent a Construct and Measure it too ; 18. The Problem with Poverty: Definition, Measurement and Interpretation ; 19. Ethical Issues in Social Measurement ; 20. Measuring is More than Assigning Numbers ; 21. Is Social Measurement Possible, and is it necessary?

El Sage Handbook of measurement es un recurso metodológico único en el que Walford, Viswanathan y Tucker reúnen contribuciones de los autores de las obras clásicas en los estudios de medición de los últimos veinticinco años. Cada capítulo se enfoca en un aspecto diferente de la Medición, de modo que el Manual en su conjunto cubre el espectro completo de cuestiones centrales relacionadas con el diseño, el método y el análisis dentro de los estudios de medición. El Manual cubre la gama completa de disciplinas donde los estudios de medición son comunes; estudios de política, estudios de educación, estudios de salud, estudios de negocios, etc. [Tomado de: https://us.sagepub.com]