Review of Psychometrics: An Introduction
In: Structural equation modeling: a multidisciplinary journal, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 662-663
ISSN: 1532-8007
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In: Structural equation modeling: a multidisciplinary journal, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 662-663
ISSN: 1532-8007
The paper is focused on the critical exploration of an experiment held in the Ukrainian media environment. The results of the experiment are reflected in the book Freedom of Speech Against Fear and Humiliation published by Savik Shuster (2018), the Ukrainian political journalist and the Freedom of Speech TV talk show host. The study aims to define factors and predictors of the Ukrainian audience's social behavior. In this regard, narrative, conversational, and intent analyses of his talk show participants' conflict interaction described in the book, were applied. These tools made it possible to explicate his narratives' main topics, their prominence, role positions, archetypal patterns of the participant, and host's behavior. The narrative structure of "negative" scenarios of the talk show described in the book enabled defining the host as the encourager of the speakers' conflict behavior, high tension of their discourse that leads to deconstructing, discrediting, and demonizing the opponent's political party image. Although Schuster's conclusions were full of dramatic statements and almost apocalyptic predictions, their reinterpretation was necessary. The application of F-test as a measure of testing statistical hypotheses relevant to empirical data, allowed to search for additional political and psychological explanatory models of the "emotional map of Ukraine". The results of the study demonstrate hidden suggestion of hopelessness, feelings of betrayal, protest moods inspired by the speakers invited to the TV show. This adversely affects the critical understanding of current social processes along with the radicalization of public sentiment by shifting the locus of control to the outside, when the audience invited to the show delegates responsibility for the state of affairs in the country and their own well-being to their political leaders.
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In: Journal of visual impairment & blindness: JVIB, Band 115, Heft 3, S. 268-269
ISSN: 1559-1476
In: Journal of managerial psychology, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 21-24
ISSN: 1758-7778
Successful businesses today are attending to internal and external
changes. Their leaders value diversity and seek a heterogeneous
workforce, recognising that effective work teams are essential in the
process. In the shaping and managing of new organisational cultures,
consultants can provide assistance. This article describes a Fortune 50
company client where a particular method of team‐building was used that
involved the results of a five‐month consultation which included 20
subgroups in eight cities.
In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Band 47, Heft 4-5, S. 330-350
ISSN: 1552-7441
Erik Angner has argued that simultaneous endorsement of the representational theory of measurement (RTM) and psychometrics leads to inconsistency. His claim rests on an implicit assumption: RTM and psychometrics are full-fledged approaches to measurement. I argue that RTM and psychometrics are only partial approaches that deal with different aspects of measurement, and that therefore simultaneous endorsement of the two is not inconsistent. The argument has implications for the improvement of measurement practices.
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 241-259
ISSN: 1461-703X
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 241-259
ISSN: 0261-0183
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 241-259
ISSN: 1461-703X
The current age of 'austerity' is associated with neoliberal ideology. Neoliberalism can be understood as a form of governmentality – a way of reconfiguring selves and the social order in accord with the demands of market economies. A recent UK policy initiative by the Coalition government's Behavioural Insights Team required benefit claimants to submit to online psychometric testing. We examine this policy in some detail, arguing that this use of psychometric testing is flawed, unethical, and unlikely to help claimants to find work. Our analysis of the test procedure and its results suggests that the policy functions primarily as a means whereby benefit claimants can be 'nudged' towards acceptance of the precepts of neoliberal subjectivities.
In: NBER Working Paper No. w25224
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In: Journal of Credit Risk, Band 19, Heft 2
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In: History of political economy, Band 43, Heft suppl_1, S. 35-56
ISSN: 1527-1919
The period 1895–1925 saw the origins and establishment of the fields that came to be called econometrics and psychometrics. I consider what these fields owed to biometry—the statistical approach to the biological problems of evolution—and make some comparisons between all three. I emphasize developments in biology and psychology, for these are less familiar to historians of econometrics. These developments are interesting to contemplate, for the biometricians and psychometricians were already discussing issues associated with the respective roles of statistical analysis and of subject matter theory, issues that became prominent in econometrics only much later.
In: The MARCES book series
"The general theme of this book is to encourage the use of relevant methodology in data mining which is or could be applied to the interplay of education, statistics and computer science to solve psychometric issues and challenges in the new generation of assessments. In addition to item response data, other data collected in the process of assessment and learning will be utilized to help solve psychometric challenges and facilitate learning and other educational applications. Process data include those collected or available for collection during the process of assessment and instructional phase such as responding sequence data, log files, the use of help features, the content of web searches, etc. Some book chapters present the general exploration of process data in large-scale assessment. Further, other chapters also address how to integrate psychometrics and learning analytics in assessment and survey, how to use data mining techniques for security and cheating detection, how to use more assessment results to facilitate student's learning and guide teacher's instructional efforts. The book includes both theoretical and methodological presentations that might guide the future in this area, as well as illustrations of efforts to implement big data analytics that might be instructive to those in the field of learning and psychometrics. The context of the effort is diverse, including K-12, higher education, financial planning, and survey utilization. It is hoped that readers can learn from different disciplines, especially those who are specialized in assessment, would be critical to expand the ideas of what we can do with data analytics for informing assessment practices"--
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Targeted social media advertising based on psychometric user profiling has emerged as an effective way of reaching individuals who are predisposed to accept and be persuaded by the advertising message. In the political realm, the use of psychometrics appears to have been used to spread both information and misinformation through social media in recent elections in the U.S. and Europe, partially resulting in the current, public debate about -˜fake news'. This paper questions the ethics of these methods, both in a commercial context and in the context of democratic processes. The ethical approach is based on the theoretical, contractarian work of John Rawls which serves as a lens through which the author examines whether the rights of citizens, as Rawls attributes them, are violated by this practice. The paper concludes that within a Rawlsian framework, use of psychometrics in commercial advertising on social media platforms is not necessarily unethical, since the user enters freely into a contract that allows for psychometrics to be used, and because this type of advertising is not necessary for full participation in society. The opposite is the case for political information, and thus, the paper concludes that use of psychometrics in political campaigning violates several of Rawls' ethical maxims.
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In: Journal of social sciences: interdisciplinary reflection of contemporary society, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 205-210
ISSN: 2456-6756