Social Measurement

First Edition

Donald T. Campbell - Lehigh University, USA
M. Jean Russo

February 2001 | 528 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This book provides researchers, evaluators, and graduate students with a user-friendly presentation of Campbell's essential work (including his latest thoughts on some of his classic works) in social measurement. The book includes Campbell's arguments as to why qualitative approaches belong with quantitative ones as the assumptive background to relevant quantitative measures, his debate with deconstructionists and social constructionists on measurement validity, and an expansion and further explanation of his multitrait-multimethod matrix. By including overviews for each part and article as well as provide social scientists with useful insights into Campbell's papers in a format accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

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Introduction

PART ONE: VALIDITY OF ATTITUDE AND PERSONALITY TESTS

Types of Validity

Construct, Trait, or Discriminant Validity

Multitrait-Multimethod Validity Matrix

Does the method of Measurement Add Irrelevancies or Does It Dilute?

The Current Status of Research on the Multitrait-Multimethod Validity Matrix

The Contemporary Philosophy of Science Appropriate to the Multitrait-Multimethod Validity Matrix

Biases in Attitude and personality Scales

PART TWO: INDIRECT MEASURES

Fifteen Validity Issues Affecting All Measures

Indirect Attitude Measures

Seating Patterns as an Attitude Index

PART THREE: QUALITATIVE AND ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES

Qualitative Research Methods in Program Evaluation

The Qualitative Case Study

Using the Anthropologist's Informants

The Translation of Personality and Attitude Tests

Field-Manual Anthropology

PART FOUR: THE USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS

Administrative Records as Ontinuous Experimental Laboratories for Experimental Innovations

Welfare Recipients and Social Workers as Judges of the Effectiveness of the Program

PART FIVE: ETHICS AND RIGHTS OF SUBJECTS

Preserving Confidentiality

Protection of Research Participants

"This book is a cause for celebration for social scientists of all stripes."

Charles S. Reichardt

Psychology, University of Denver

Key features

Makes Campbell's articles on social measurement accessible to readers who have had a basic course in research methods. The Part Intros set the context for the articles; and, the Chapter Intros explain the key points to consider and reflect upon in the article.
Makes available in one place Campbell's articles that were published (prior to this) by fairly obscure presses.

Organized in such a way so that the reader gets a complete "picture" of how Campbell viewed social experimentation

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