Chapter 1: What is Measurement?
1.1 Keatings War and Thorndikes Credo
1.2 What is (and What is Not) Measurement?
1.3 Educational and Psychological Measurement
1.4 Overview of this Book
Chapter 2. Psychophysical Measurement: Gustav Fechner and the Just Noticeable Difference
2.1 Overview
2.2 The Origins of Psychophysics
2.3 The Method of Right and Wrong Cases (The Constant Method)
2.4 Criticisms
2.5 Fechners Legacy
2.6 Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 3. Whenever you Can, Count: Francis Galton and the Measurement of Individual Differences
3.1 Overview
3.2 Galtons Background
3.3 Three Influences on Galtons Thinking
3.4 The Concept of Relative Measurement
3.5 Galtons Conceptualization of Measurement
Chapter 4. Anthropometric Laboratories, Regression, and the Cautionary Tale of Eugenics
4.1 Galtons Instrumental Innovations
4.2 The Discovery of Regression and Correlation
4.3 The Horror of Eugenics
4.4 Galtons Legacy
4.5 Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 5. Mental Tests and Measuring Scales: The Innovations of Alfred Binet
5.1 Overview
5.2 Binets Background
5.3 The Binet-Simon Measuring Scale
5.4 Binets Conceptualization of Measurement
5.5 Criticisms
5.6 Binets Legacy
5.7 Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 6. Measurement Error and the Concept of Reliability
6.1 Overview
6.2 Spearmans Background
6.3 Disattenuating Correlation Coefficients
6.4 Replications, Occasions, and Measurement Error
6.5 Varying Test Items and the Spearman-Brown Prophecy Formula
6.6 The Development of Classical Test Theory
Chapter 7. Measurement Through Correlation: Spearmans Theory of Two Factors
7.1 Formalization of the Theory of Two Factors
7.2 Method of Corroborating the Theory
7.3 Building a Model of Human Cognition
7.4 The Interpretation of g
7.5 The Utility of the Two-Factor Theory
7.6 Spearmans Conceptualization of Measurement
Chapter 8. Theory vs. Method in the Measurement of Intelligence
8.1 Challenges to the Theory of Two Factors
8.2 Godfrey Thomsons Sampling Theory of Ability
8.3 Edwin Wilson and the Indeterminacy of g
8.4 Louis Thurstones Multiple Factor Method
8.5 Spearman On Defense
8.6 Spearmans Legacy
8.7 Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 9. The Seeds of Psychometrics: Thurstones Subjective Units
9.1 Overview
9.2 Thurstones Background
9.3 Toward Psychological Measurement
9.4 Constructing a Psychological Continuum
9.5 Thurstones Conceptualization of Measurement
9.6 Likert Scales
9.7 Thurstones Legacy
9.8. Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 10. Representation, Operations, and the Scale Taxonomy of S. S. Stevens
10.1 Overview
10.2 Stevenss Background
10.3 Norman Campbell and the Representational Approach to Measurement
10.4 Stevenss Conceptualization of Measurement
10.5 The Process of Operational Measurement
10.6 Criticisms
10.7 Stevenss Legacy to Measurement
10.8 Sources and Further Reading
