TY - BOOK AU - AU - Walford,Geoffrey AU - Tucker,Eric AU - Viswanathan,Madhu TI - The Sage Handbook of Measurement SN - 978-1-4129-4814-2 AV - QC 39 S11 PY - 2010/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - KW - Measurement KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Meetmethoden KW - gtt KW - Sociale wetenschappen N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Reflections on social measurement: how social scientists generate, modify, and validate indicators and scales; Eric Tucker ; Madhu Viswanathan ; Geoffrey Walford --; Section one: Methods for data collection -- Surveys, tests, and observational scales --; How to get valid answers from survey questions: what we learned from asking about sexual behavior and the measurement of sexuality; Aniruddha Das ; Edward O. Laumann --; The SAT®: design principles and innovations of a quintessential American social indicator; Howard T. Everson --; Measurement as cooperative communication: what research participants learn from questionnaires; Norbert Schwarz --; Developing observation instruments and arriving at inter-rater reliability for a range of contexts and raters: the early childhood environment rating scales; Elena Soucacou ; Kathy Sylva --; Studying teacher effectiveness: the challenges of developing valid measures; Linda Darling-Hammond ; Jack Diechmann ; Ed Haertel ; Rachel Lotan ; Xiaoxia Newton ; Sandy Philipose ; Eliza Spang ; Ewart Thomas ; Peter Williamson --; Identifying consumers' compulsive buying tendencies: lessons learned for measuring consumer-related phenomena; Kent B. Monroe ; Nancy M. Ridgway ; Monika Kukar-Kinney --; Section two: The context of measurement -- Comparative, cultural, linguistic, and international dimensions --; Linguistic factors in the assessment of English language learners; Jamal Abedi --; Measurement issues in cross-cultural research; A. Timothy Church --; Conceptualizing and measuring culture: problems and solutions; Louis Tay ; Sang Eun Woo ; Jennifer Klafehn ; Chi-yue Chiu --; International comparisons of educational attainment: purposes, processes, and problems; David Phillips --; Measurement across time and space --; Reflections on measuring behavior: time and the grid; Roger Bakeman --; Approaches to measuring multi-dimension constructs across the life course: operationalizing depression over the lifespan; Brian Mezuk ; William W. Eaton --; Description and discovery in socio-spatial analysis: the case of space syntax; Bill Hillier ; Noah Raford --; Section three: Fundamental issues in measurement -- Minimizing measurement error --; Understanding the intangibles of measurement in the social sciences; Madhu Viswanathan --; Towards a more rigorous scientific approach to social measurement: considering a grounded indicator approach to developing measurement tools; Eric Tucker --; Theorisation of constructs --; Measuring conceptualisations of morality: or how to invent a construct and measure it too; Remo Ostini --; The problem with poverty: definition, measurement and interpretation; Robert Walker ; Mark Tomlinson ; Glenn Williams --; Critical and ethical perspectives --; Ethical issues in social measurement / Martin Bulmer ; Josephine Ocloo --; Measuring is more than assigning numbers; Stephen Gorard --; Is social measurement possible, and is it necessary?; Martyn Hammersley --; Section four: The real world practice of measurement -- Sensitive issues and the difficult to measure --; Sensitive issues and the difficulty to measure: the case of measuring child sexual abuse; Will Tucker ; Ross Cheit --; Indirect measurement; David J. Bartholomew --; Improving the practice of measurement --; Increasing the measurement accuracy of consumption intentions; Brian Wansink --; Making applied measurement effective and efficient; Ujwal Kayandé --; Contemporary challenges of longitudinal measurement using HRS data; John J. McArdle --; Measuring the dimensions of social capital in developing countries; Veronica Nyhan Jones ; Michael Woolcock --; Administrative and secondary data and performance measurement --; The use of administrative data to answer policy questions: secondary data on crime and the problem with homicide; Marc Riedel --; Assessing performance of school systems: the measurement and assessment challenges of NCLB; Sean Mulvenon ER -