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The SAGE Handbook of Measurement

Edited by

Geoffrey Walford University of Oxford,
Eric Tucker N.A.U.D.L and
Madhu Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contents
–Notes on Contributors

INTRODUCTION

1. How social scientists generate, modify, and validate indicators and scales
–Eric Tucker, Madhu Viswanathan, and Geoffrey Walford

SECTION ONE: METHODS FOR DATA COLLECTION

Surveys, Tests , and Observational Scale

2. How to get valid answers from survey questions:

What we learned from asking about sexual behaviour and the measurement of sexuality
–Aniruddha Das and Edward O. Laumann

3. The SAT: Design Principles and Innovations of a Quintessential American Social Indicator
–Howard T. Everson

4. Measurement as cooperative communication: What research participants learn from questionnaires
–Norbert Schwarz

5. Developing observation instruments and arriving at inter-rater reliability for a range of contexts and raters: The Early Childhood Classroom Rating Scales
–Elena Soucacou and Kathy Sylva

6. Studying teacher effectiveness: the challenges of developing valid measures
–Linda Darling-Hammond, Jack Dieckmann, Ed Haertel, Rachel Lotan, Xiaoxia Newton, Sandy Philipose, Eliza Spang, Ewart Thomas, and Peter Williamson

7. Identifying consumers’ compulsive buying tendencies: lessons learned for measuring consumer-related phenomena
– Kent B. Monroe, Nancy M. Ridgway and Monika Kukar-Kinney

SECTION TWO: THE CONTEXT OF MEASUREMENT

Comparative, Cultural, Linguistic, and International Dimensions of Measurement

8. Linguistic factors in the assessment of English language learners
–Jamal Abedi

9. Measurement issues in cross-cultural research
–A. Timothy Church

10. Conceptualizing and measuring culture: Problems and solutions
–Louis Tay, Sang Eun Woo, Jennifer Klafehn and Chi-yue Chiu

11. International comparisons of educational attainment: Purposes, processes, and problems
–David Phillips

Measurement Across Time and Space

12. Reflections on measuring behavior: Time and the grid
–Roger Bakeman

13. Approaches to measuring multi-dimensional constructs across the life-course: Operationalizing depression over the lifespan
–Briana Mezuk and William W. Eaton

14. Theorisation and operationalisation: Numerical measurement for the social use of urban space
–Bill Hillier and Noah Raford

SECTION THREE: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT

Minimizing Measurement Error

15. Understanding the intangibles of measurement in the social sciences
–Madhu Viswanathan

16. Towards a more rigorous scientific approach to social measurement: Considering a grounded indicator approach to developing measurement tools.
–Eric Tucker

Theorisation of Constructs

17. Measuring conceptualizations of morality: Or how to invent a construct and measure it too
–Remo Ostini

18. The problems with poverty: Definition, measurement and interpretation
–Robert Walker, Mark Tomlinson and Glenn Williams

Critical and Ethical Perspectives

19. Ethical dimensions of measurement
–Martin Bulmer

20. Measuring is more than assigning numbers
–Stephen Gorard

21. 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

22. Sensitive issues and the difficult to measure: The case of measuring child sexual abuse
–Will Tucker and Ross Cheit

23. Indirect measurement
–David J Bartholomew

Improving the Practice of Measurement

24. The complications of increasing the accuracy of consumption intentions
–Brian Wansink

25. Making applied measurement effective and efficient
–Ujwal Kayande

26. Contemporary issues in longitudinal measurement
–John J. McArdle

27. Measuring the dimensions of social capital in developing countries
–Veronica Nyhan Jones and Michael Woodcock

Administrative and Secondary Data and Performance Measurement

28. The use of administrative data to answer policy questions: Secondary data on crime and the problem with homicide
–Marc Riedel

29. Assessing performance of school systems: The measurement and assessment challenges of NCLB
–Sean Mulvenon

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