An evaluation of some aspects of the educational value of the Dominion Museum's school service in the Wellington City area

It was realised at the outset of this work that it would be very difficult to attempt a scientific and concrete evaluation of all the results which had been achieved by the Dominion Museum's Educational work. (Throughout this thesis the word 'museum' is to be taken as referring to the Dominion Museum's Educational work, unless it is specifically stated as not so doing.) There must be so many intangible results which by their very nature defy measurement, that any attempt to do so would be foredoomed to failure. Nevertheless such material as has been obtained by the use of objective scales of measurement does seem to me to contain some results of value.<br><br>While I have already a cknowledged to the people concerned my indebtedness to them; I feel that I must express again in this final result my deep gratitude to:<br><br>The pupils who provided the ma terial on which results were based, Teachers and Headmasters who co-operated, Mr Stannard and Miss Lawson of the Dominion Museum,<br>Mr Lopdell and Training college students for their help in distributing and collecting the questionnaires, and all the other people who in any way gave assistance.<br><br>The investigation was originally planned on a somewhat larger scale than is set down here, but in actual practice it was found that the work involved in what was eventually completed was quite sufficient.

An evaluation of some aspects of the educational value of the Dominion Museum's school service in the Wellington City area

It was realised at the outset of this work that it would be very difficult to attempt a scientific and concrete evaluation of all the results which had been achieved by the Dominion Museum's Educational work. (Throughout this thesis the word 'museum' is to be taken as referring to the Dominion Museum's Educational work, unless it is specifically stated as not so doing.) There must be so many intangible results which by their very nature defy measurement, that any attempt to do so would be foredoomed to failure. Nevertheless such material as has been obtained by the use of objective scales of measurement does seem to me to contain some results of value.<br><br>While I have already a cknowledged to the people concerned my indebtedness to them; I feel that I must express again in this final result my deep gratitude to:<br><br>The pupils who provided the ma terial on which results were based, Teachers and Headmasters who co-operated, Mr Stannard and Miss Lawson of the Dominion Museum,<br>Mr Lopdell and Training college students for their help in distributing and collecting the questionnaires, and all the other people who in any way gave assistance.<br><br>The investigation was originally planned on a somewhat larger scale than is set down here, but in actual practice it was found that the work involved in what was eventually completed was quite sufficient.

A Conceptual and Operational Review of the Negative Financial Health Terminology and Constructs

Financial (di)stress is widespread and an important topic for research by a variety of organizations and disciplines. However, different terms are being used in different disciplines in academia, by organizations, and by consumers. This paper illustrates various terms used to describe negative financial health, provides their incidence in several academic databases and Google searches, provides definitions used in studies, identifies scales of measurement, assesses if new scales are being developed and if they have validity, and identifies if measures of negative financial health constructs include objective, subjective, or both measures. The study ends with specific recommendations for researchers from academia and practitioners worldwide. This article reviews financial negative health terminology and constructs, and attempts to shed light on similarities and differences among the terms, to allow for better knowledge translation and integration.

Measuring Digital Citizenship: A Comparative Analysis

This paper aims at showing a state of the art about digital citizenship from the methodological point of view when it comes to measuring this construct. The review of the scientific literature offers at least ten definitions and nine different scales of measurement. The comparative and diachronic analysis of the content of the definitions shows us two conceptions of digital citizenship, some more focused on digital competences and others on critical and activist aspects. This paper replicates and compares three scales of measurement of digital citizenship selected for their relevance and administered in a sample of 366 university students, to analyze their psychometric properties and the existing coincidences and divergences between the three. The most outstanding conclusion is that not all of them seem to measure the same construct, due to its diversity of dimensions. An online activism dimension needs to be incorporated if digital citizenship is to be measured. There is an urgent need to agree internationally on a definition of digital citizenship with its corresponding dimensions to elaborate a reliable and valid measuring instrument.

Measurement Essentials in a Nutshell

A quick introduction to scales of measurement, ordinal, interval, ratio, and absolute, and related issues of meaningfulness as invariance.

The Brand Relationship of Cult-Like Following: Developing Scales of Measurement in Apple and Catholic Devotees

The purpose of this research aims to fill in the gap in the religion-brand relationship, and explores what constitutes a cult-like allegiance to a brand, by examining subjects’ relationship to the Apple brand, comparing survey response by subjects who were “devotees” versus “indifferents” to Catholicism and to Apple. This paper uses Ninian Smart’s (1989) “Seven Dimensions of Religion” as a theoretical framework to develop scales of measurement among Apple and Catholic devotees. The contribution of this research is the development of Catholic and Apple scales. The Catholic scale extracted three factors and the Apple scale generated four factors in CFA.

Mathematization, Not Measurement: A Critique of Stevens’ Scales of Measurement

In the early 1900s, physics was the archetypical science and measurement was equated with mathematization to real numbers. To enable the use of mathematics to draw empirical conclusions about psychological data, which was often ordinal, Stevens redefined measurement as “the assignment of numerals to objects and events according to a rule.” He defined four scales of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio) and set out criteria for the permissible statistical tests to be used with each. Stevens' scales of measurement are still widely used in data analysis in the social sciences. They were revolutionary but flawed, leading to ongoing debate about the permissibility of the use of different statistical tests on different scales of data. Stevens implicitly assumed measurement involved mapping to real numbers. Rather than rely on Stevens' scales, researchers should demonstrate the mathematical properties of their data and map to analogous number sets, making claims regarding mathematization explicit, defending them with evidence, and using only those operations that are defined for that set.

Variability in Rainfall and Kinetic Energy across scales of measurement: evaluation using disdrometers in Paris region

&lt;p&gt;To calculate the effect of rainfall in detaching particles and initiating soil erosion, it is important to represent relationship between recorded drop size distributions (DSD) and fall velocity across various scales of measurement. Commonly used relationships between kinetic energy (KE) and rainfall rate (R) exhibit strong dependence on the temporal resolution at which analysis is carried out. Here we aim at developing a scale invariant relationship relying on the framework of Universal Multifractals (UM), which has been widely used to analyze and characterize geophysical fields that exhibit extreme variability over measurement scales.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rainfall data is collected using three optical disdrometers working on different underlying technologies (one Campbell Scientific PWS100 and two OTT Parsivel2 instruments) and operated by Hydrology, Meteorology, and Complexity laboratory of &amp;#201;cole des Ponts ParisTech in the Paris area (France). They provide access to the size and velocity of drops falling through sampling areas of few tens of cm&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;. Such data enables estimation of rainfall microphysics, R and KE at various resolutions. The temporal variation of this geophysical data over wide range of scales is then characterized in the UM framework. A power law relation has been developed for describing the dependence of KE on R. The developed equation using scale invariant features of UM are valid not only at a single scale, but also across scales. The amount of uncertainty is further characterized by comparing actual data with simulated rainfall data from Sense-City climate chamber.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keywords: rainfall intensity; rainfall kinetic energy; disdrometer; multi fractal; scale invariant&lt;/p&gt;

Scale and Number

Much recent anthropology reflects on how scales are contested and contingent products of heterogeneous social interactions, not the ‘ontological givens’ (sensu Carr and Lempert) described in earlier scholarship. This article examines the importance of number in the formation of scales of measurement. It does so regarding a pastoral Mongolian scale of livestock-counting based on the number ten thousand, or tüm[en]: a qualitative-cum-quantitative term suggesting plenty and abundance. Drawing on literature on the anthropology of number, and bringing it into dialogue with studies of scale and ideology, this article argues that number is not just a means for calibrating pre-existing scales. Instead, as something endowed with particular qualities and conceptual stability, number can be mobilized to produce ideologically charged scales of measurement.

Consistency Analysis of Spatial Perception Measurement of Tourists and Residents in Fuzhou Xi-Hu Park

Fuzhou Xi-Hu Park is Located in the central area of Fuzhou, It has a history of over 1,700 years and is the most complete classical garden in Fuzhou. Many people come to the Xi-Hu Park for sightseeing when they arrive in Fuzhouas well as residents. The purpose of this study is to explore whether the structure and measurement method of the questionnaire are uniform for tourists and residents in the measurement of spatial perception. Data were collected by questionnaire survey, 650 number of questionnaire were distributed and 583 were received. The results revealed that the scales of measurement across residents and tourists were invariant. The measurement weights, measure residuals and structural residuals were not significant indicating that there is no difference across residents and tourists. It means that the study can re analyze the difference between tourists and residents' perception of space.