This book provides expert guidance to properly control for method effects and data distortions, helping researchers and practitioners to enhance their skills in psychological measurement.
- Provides the accumulated knowledge on method effects in psychological measurement
- Outlines pitfalls in experimental methodology and provides approaches to enhance validity in experiments
- Includes example data, equations, and figures for a comprehensive understanding of psychological measurement
More than two dozen experienced researchers in psychological measurement present their knowledge about method effects in psychological measurement and describe how these method effects can influence results obtained with psychological tests and questionnaires. The book provides guidance on improving test and questionnaire development by preventing or controlling for data distortions and representing collected data appropriately by the consideration of method effects. Many chapters offer examples on how to examine method effects in sample data using packages in RStudio. Each chapter is uniquely written by a set of authors, ensuring a diverse pool of information that combines their collective methodological background and is filled with psychometric evidence, elucidating typical and untypical errors that can easily go unnoticed and hinder the valid interpretation of test results.
With this tool in your hands and the knowledge it provides, you can properly control for method effects and data distortions, allowing for the best representation of the attributes under investigation. Equipped with such thorough methodological knowledge, practitioners can also utilize these extensive chapters to select the most appropriate test for their patients and enhance the caliber of qualitative treatment. The endeavors to control for method effects provided in this book are a promising avenue for refining and improving skills in psychological measurement.
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###ITALIC#TEXT[“This edited volume is a highly recommended resource for understanding how method effects can compromise the validity of psychological measurement when they are not properly addressed. Featuring contributions from leading experts, each chapter clearly explains specific sources of distortion and offers evidence-based strategies for controlling them during test development and evaluation. Whether you are developing a new scientifically sound instrument or assessing existing measures of psychological constructs, this volume provides the rigorous, state-of-the-art guidance needed to ensure that your instruments truly reflect the constructs they are intended to capture”.]###
Axel Meyer, PhD, Professor for Psychological Methods and Evaluation, Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
###ITALIC#TEXT[“This accessible and engaging book addresses an important but often neglected topic in psychological measurement. The chapters provide up to date and well-researched information on a wide variety of topics ranging from types of method effects and their underlying psychological processes to the detection and modeling of these effects. This book should be in the library of anyone interested in measurement issues in the behavioral sciences”.]###
Deborah L. Bandalos, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
