Can qualitative phenomena be quantified? A study of the validity of quantitative and qualitative mathematical approaches to measuring educational attainment

Thesis

In educational assessment students are given tasks - such as examination questions - and information obtained from their responses is used to summarise the quality of their performances. This summary information is often said to measure some feature of substantive interest, such as 'attainment' or 'proficiency', and is often expressed numerically, for example, as a score.

Usually, information is collected about different attributes of each performance, in the form of sub-sc...

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Authors: Scharaschkin, A

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-zbkk7xxn8
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: quantitative structure; theory of measurement; educational assessment; fuzzy relational systems; psychometrics
• Subjects: Hasse diagrams; Lattice theory; Educational tests and measurements; Psychometrics