Assessing Intellectual Development: Three Approaches, One Sequence

Dawson, Theo L.

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“…Formal reasoning makes it possible to project action into the future and thereby foresee the consequences of one's actions, making the concept of responsibility for health a meaningful one. Previous research on learning and views of parental authorities show that these diverse topics are framed in terms of responsibility starting at formal stage (Dawson, 2004;Dawson & Gabrielian, 2003).…”

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“…As a formal general theory with mathematically-based stages (Commons & Pekker, 2008) and validated scoring procedures (Dawson, 2002(Dawson, , 2003(Dawson, , 2004, "the hierarchical complexity scoring system assesses a unidimensional developmental trait" and thus "satisfies the first requirement for good measurement, the identification of a unidimensional, context-independent trait" (Dawson, 2006, p. 445). The Hierarchical Complexity Scoring System (HCSS) derived from the MHC enables a standard quantitative analysis of complexity in any setting, a developmental metric applicable to diverse scales that eliminates dependence on mentalistic or contextual explanations (e.g., mental schema, culture).…”

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Older Persons' Reasoning about Responsibility for Health: Variations and Predictions

Kjellström

Ross

2011

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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With many Western societies structured for adults to live longer and take responsibility for their health, it is valuable to investigate how older persons reason about this demand. Using mixed methods, this pilot studied how older persons reason about responsibility for health and their responsibility as a patient. Interviews with a small Swedish sample of 65-84 year olds were analyzed for qualitative characteristics and quantitative complexity in reasoning. Using adult development theory, we predicted at least three different stages of performance in reasoning. Results indicated four different stages: two where there is no actual reasoning about health and responsibility, and two where reasoning does occur, each qualitatively different. Results suggest a long-standing blind spot in health studies, that older people do not comprehend responsibility issues in the same way. There are significant implications for closing this gap between demand to take responsibility and capabilities to do so.

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Older Persons' Reasoning about Responsibility for Health: Variations and Predictions

Kjellström

Ross

2011

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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“…Fit analysis should be followed by a return to the drawing board. A theory of the measured construct ultimately provides rigorously precise predictive control over item calibrations, in the manner of the Lexile Framework [18] or developmental theories of hierarchical complexity [19]. …”

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Reliability, precision, and measurement in the context of data from ability tests, surveys, and assessments

Fisher¹,

Elbaum

Coulter

2010

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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Abstract. Reliability coefficients indicate the proportion of total variance attributable to differences among measures separated along a quantitative continuum by a testing, survey, or assessment instrument. Reliability is usually considered to be influenced by both the internal consistency of a data set and the number of items, though textbooks and research papers rarely evaluate the extent to which these factors independently affect the data in question. Probabilistic formulations of the requirements for unidimensional measurement separate consistency from error by modelling individual response processes instead of group-level variation. The utility of this separation is illustrated via analyses of small sets of simulated data, and of subsets of data from a 78-item survey of over 2,500 parents of children with disabilities. Measurement reliability ultimately concerns the structural invariance specified in models requiring sufficient statistics, parameter separation, unidimensionality, and other qualities that historically have made quantification simple, practical, and convenient for end users. The paper concludes with suggestions for a research program aimed at focusing measurement research more on the calibration and wide dissemination of tools applicable to individuals, and less on the statistical study of inter-variable relations in large data sets.

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“…Similarly, quantitative correlations between various approaches to human development and maturation have led to similar instrument equatings [40,41].…”

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Measurement, Metrology, and the Coordination of Sociotechnical Networks

Fisher

2011

SSRN Journal

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 Exact, reproducible and well maintained international standards are needed not only in the natural sciences and engineering, but are of increasing concern today in education, health care, government, business intelligence, and the economy at large. Metrological practice gives rise to complex adaptive systems in which meaningful relationships are socially conceived and brought to life. All scientific units should be established with equal rigor, and all measures should be based on consensus standard metrics valued for their accuracy, stability and availability. Fifty years of research and practice employing probabilistic models of psychosocial constructs document individual-level structural invariances capable of supporting metrological traceability. Complex adaptive systems of this kind offer new opportunities for extending the true union of mathematics and measurement into the psychosocial sciences.

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Assessing Intellectual Development: Three Approaches, One Sequence

Cited by 44 publications

References 25 publications

Older Persons' Reasoning about Responsibility for Health: Variations and Predictions

Older Persons' Reasoning about Responsibility for Health: Variations and Predictions

Reliability, precision, and measurement in the context of data from ability tests, surveys, and assessments

Measurement, Metrology, and the Coordination of Sociotechnical Networks

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