Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Measurement"
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Building Evidence for Effective Education: Essays in Quantitative Research Methods
(2021-05-06)This dissertation consists of three papers about quantitative research methods in education. Each paper is a response to potential limitations of the current approach to building evidence for effective education – an ... -
Measuring Nurturing Care Across Cultures: Psychometric and Qualitative Approaches to Understanding Early Child Development
(2023-12-13)New estimates find that nearly 250 million children under the age of 5 years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at risk of not reaching their developmental potential (Black et al., 2017). Children’s exposure ... -
The Semantics of Measurement
(2014-10-21)This thesis examines linguistic phenomena that implicate measurement in the nominal domain. The first is morphological number, as in one book vs. two books. Intuitively, the contrast between singular and plural forms of ... -
Statistical Explorations of Testing and Testing Culture
(2021-05-13)This dissertation is composed of three studies. The first and second examine the U.S. private tutoring industry which heretofore has gone largely undocumented by academic research. I show that not only has the industry ...