Invariance and the Three Traditions of Measurement in the Human Sciences

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10.2991/978-94-6463-494-5_2How to use a DOI?

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invariant measurement; Rasch measurement theory; test-score tradition; scaling tradition; structural tradition; explanatory Rasch models

Abstract

This chapter presents key aspects of invariant measurement. Invariant measurement can be broadly viewed as the application of scientific principles to the development of scales. Three traditions of measurement are identified and described (test-score, scaling, and structural traditions) for categorizing widely used measurement theories. Each of these traditions has a distinctive perspective on invariant measurement. Rasch measurement theory offers the opportunity to integrate these three perspectives based on extensions of the Rasch model that include the development of explanatory measurement models with both item and person covariates.

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AU  - George Engelhard Jr.
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/08/22
TI  - Invariance and the Three Traditions of Measurement in the Human Sciences
BT  - Proceedings of the Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 7
EP  - 19
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-494-5_2
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-494-5_2
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