Quantitative explorations of behaviour, psyche and society are common in psychology. This
requires methods that justify the attribution of results to the measurands (the entities to be …

This article is a critical review of the internship measurement scales in higher education.
Although the importance of internships is widely acknowledged in the literature, there is a …

Rating scales are popular methods for generating quantitative data directly by persons
rather than automated technologies. But scholars increasingly challenge their foundations …

This open access book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement
across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics …

Although measurement has been an important component of human activities for millennia,
it remains remarkably difficult to provide a fully satisfactory definition of the concept. In part …

This article explores in-depth the metatheoretical and methodological foundations on which
rating scales—by their very conception, design and application—are built and traces their …

Quantitative data are generated differently. To justify inferences about real-world
phenomena and establish secured knowledge bases, however, quantitative data generation …

In both scientific and lay settings, measurement is considered a privileged source of high-
quality information, and is commonly associated with precision, accuracy, and dependability …

Measurement is widely applied because its results are assumed to be more reliable than
opinions and guesses, but this reliability is sometimes justified in a stereotyped way. After a …

This chapter presents a pragmatic definition of measurement as an activity of classification,
ordination, or quantification of a set of elements according to a model of a relevant attribute …