Overcoming the Invisibility of Metrology: A Reading Measurement Network for Education and the Social Sciences

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 459(012024), DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/459/1/012024

7 Pages Posted: 16 Oct 2013 Last revised: 18 Oct 2013

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William P. Fisher

University of California, Berkeley - BEAR Center

A. Jackson Stenner

MetaMetrics, Inc.

Date Written: September 2, 2013

Abstract

The public and researchers in psychology and the social sciences are largely unaware of the huge resources invested in metrology and standards in science and commerce, for understandable reasons, but with unfortunate consequences. Measurement quality varies widely in fields lacking uniform standards, making it impossible to coordinate local behaviours and decisions in tune with individually observed instrument readings. However, recent developments in reading measurement have effectively instituted metrological traceability methods within elementary and secondary English and Spanish language reading education in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Australia. Given established patterns in the history of science, it may be reasonable to expect that widespread routine reproduction of controlled effects expressed in uniform units in the social sciences may lead to significant developments in theory and practice.

Keywords: measurement, Rasch models, metrology, standard units, reading research, education, construct theory

JEL Classification: H54, I20, I21

Suggested Citation

Fisher, William P. and Stenner, A. Jackson, Overcoming the Invisibility of Metrology: A Reading Measurement Network for Education and the Social Sciences (September 2, 2013). Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 459(012024), DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/459/1/012024, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2340714

William P. Fisher (Contact Author)

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A. Jackson Stenner

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