Invariance and traceability for measures of human, social, and natural capital: Theory and application

Fisher, William P.

doi:10.1016/j.measurement.2009.03.014

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“…The latter, "curveshifting" methods empower everyone on the front line to act to improve the production system itself via bottom-up, organic, self-organizing approaches to creating genuine value [38,46]. Providing teachers, clinicians, and managers with the coherent information tools they need to manage their responsibilities across the discontinuities inherent to multilevel communications systems [47][48][49] will likely result in quality revolutions in education, health care, human resource management, and other areas equal to or greater than that experienced in manufacturing [50][51][52]. Realizing the practical value of measurements as objective bases for decision supports demands close attention to uncertainty [53][54].…”

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Towards an alignment of engineering and psychometric approaches to uncertainty in measurement: Consequences for the future

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Stenner

2017

18th International Congress of Metrology

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Abstract. The International Vocabulary of Measurement (VIM) and the Guide to Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) shift the terms and concepts of measurement information quality away from an Error Approach toward a model-based Uncertainty Approach. An analogous shift has taken place in psychometrics with the decreasing use of True Score Theory and increasing attention to probabilistic models for unidimensional measurement. These corresponding shifts emerge from shared roots in cognitive processes common across the sciences and they point toward new opportunities for an art and science of living complex adaptive systems. The psychology of model-based reasoning sets the stage for not just a new consensus on measurement and uncertainty, and not just for a new valuation of the scientific status of psychology and the social sciences, but for an appreciation of how to harness the energy of self-organizing processes in ways that harmonize human relationships.

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Section: Uncertainty Budgetsmentioning

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Towards an alignment of engineering and psychometric approaches to uncertainty in measurement: Consequences for the future

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Stenner

2017

18th International Congress of Metrology

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“…Systems are typically conceived mechanically, such that aggregations are sums of parts, when what are needed are organic wholes greater than the sums of their parts. Technical and social solutions to this kind of multilevel problem take living language as their model [48], and are perhaps more accessible and feasible than is generally realized [24,36,38,[49][50][51].…”

Section: Psychometric Metrology: Challenges and Opportunitiesmentioning

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“…Since the 2008 IMEKO Joint Symposium in Annecy, France, participation of researchers in education and health care making use of Rasch's probabilistic models of measurement has grown markedly [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. A number of engineer-psychometrician collaborations have emerged from this work [33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

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Metrology, psychometrics, and new horizons for innovation

Fisher

2017

18th International Congress of Metrology

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Abstract. The vital roles of common languages, metrics, and standards in team-based innovation are well established. The historical success of science has depended extensively on mathematically rigorous, theoretically explained, experimentally evaluated, and socially distributed communications networks comprised of metrologically traceable measuring instruments. Recent descriptions of practical and theoretical correspondences between metrology and psychometrics extend scientific model-based reasoning into education and other fields. Realizing psychometrics' metrological potentials requires attending to interrelated ethical, technical, and social issues. First, measurement must embody the ethics of the Golden Rule in support of compassionate and tolerant comparisons. Technically, effective measurement systems involve (a) invariant units, with known uncertainties, (b) scientific laws modelling substantive relationships in the world, (c) hypotheses experimentally tested against data, (d) explanatory theories providing predictive control over the construct, and (e) methods for ensuring traceability to the standard unit. But to be effective, measurement systems incorporating these features will need to be situated in a larger social context cognizant of needs for the relevant standards bodies, educational programs and textbooks, professional societies, legal and regulatory oversight, accounting and economic applications, etc. Paraphrasing Rasch, the challenges are huge, but having formulated the problem, human ingenuity will likely find a way to solve it.

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“…It is well recognized that these metrics are key to efficiently harmonizing quality improvement, diagnostic, and purchasing decisions and behaviours [31]. Marshalling the resources needed to develop, implement them, and maintain them, however, seems oddly difficult to do until it is recognized that such a project must be conceived and brought to fruition on a collective level and against the grain of cultural presuppositions as to the objective measurability of intangible assets [32][33].…”

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“…Probabilistic models used in scaling and equating different tests, surveys, and assessments to common additive metrics offer a body of unexamined resources relevant to the need for mediating instruments in the domains of human, social, and natural capital markets [33]. Miller and O'Leary [2] complement the accounting literature's overly narrow perspective on capital budgeting processes with the fruitful lines of inquiry opened up in the history, philosophy, and social studies of science.…”

Section: Measurement Mediating Instru-ments and Making Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%