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

2013 Joint IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation) TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium: Measurement Across Physical and Behavioural Sciences

Fisher, William P.^1,2 ; Stenner, A. Jackson^3

BEAR Center, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States^1

LivingCapitalMetrics Consulting, United States^2

MetaMetrics, Inc., Durham, NC, United States^3

关键词: Australia;    History of science;    In-field;    Measurement networks;    Measurement quality;    Metrological traceabilitys;    Spanish language;    Theory and practice;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/459/1/012024/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/459/1/012024

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

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.