This is the first blog post on my new academic site. The main purpose of the site is to share educational and psychological measurement info and resources developed through my teaching and research.
My intro measurement textbook is available in HTML and PDF formats at https://www.thetaminusb.com/intro-measurement-r/. The book is designed for advanced undergraduate or beginner graduate courses in the theory and applications of measurement in education and psychology. Instructions and examples are given throughout on conducting psychometric analyses in R. If you’d like to contribute, email me or see the github repository at https://github.com/talbano/intro-measurement.
Note that the book is going to be updated in December, 2018 with revisions to the chapters on factor analysis, validity, and test evaluation. A Spanish translation is also underway and should be ready for 2019 at https://www.thetaminusb.com/intro-measurement-r-sp/.
I’m also working on forums for questions and conversations around measurement topics, deriving from the book, and equating topics, deriving from my R package and documentation. Stay tuned for links.