Health Sciences 2801A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nanny, Sister Suffragette, Occupational Therapist
19 Jan 2016
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Measurement - process of using indicators to represent constructs. Construct - conceptual template that serves to organize our experience of the world by making some features focal in our attention: while rendering other features peripheral in our attention. Indicator perceptible feature of the world: many perceptible features that could serve as indicators, however, only a limited number of these features are used to represent a given construct, each indicator is assigned a value. These values are aggregated to obtain a score on the instrument. For instance, in the story mary poppins opens the door (trav- ers, 1943), mary poppins resumes her position as a nanny for the banks family and sets out to measure how the children, Michael and jane, have grown during her absence (pp. She instructs michael to stand straight as she extends a measuring tape from his head to his feet. Mary poppins examines the tape and exclaims, you"ve grown worse and.
