Adaptive Inventories - A Practical Guide for Applied Researchers

The goal of this Element is to provide a detailed introduction to adaptive inventories, an approach to making surveys adjust to respondents' answers dynamically. This method can help survey researchers measure important latent traits or attitudes accurately while minimizing the number of questions respondents must answer. The Element provides both a theoretical overview of the method and a suite of tools and tricks for integrating it into the normal survey process. It also provides practical advice and direction on how to calibrate, evaluate, and field adaptive batteries using example batteries that measure variety of latent traits of interest to survey researchers across the social sciences.

List of contents

1. Introducing Adaptive Inventories; 2. Introduction to CAT for Binary Outcomes; 3. Exploring Your Options: Alternative CAT Algorithms; 4. CAT for Polytomous Outcomes; 5. Evaluating Adaptive Inventories; 6. Tools and Tricks for Applied Researchers; 7. Implications and Future Directions

Summary

The goal of this Element is to provide a detailed introduction to adaptive inventories, an approach to making surveys adjust to respondents' answers dynamically. This method can help survey researchers measure important latent traits or attitudes accurately while minimizing the number of questions respondents must answer.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob M. Montgomery, Jacob M. (Washington University Montgomery, Erin L. Rossiter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2022
• EAN: 9781108797269
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79726-9
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Data Mining, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social research & statistics, Probability & statistics, Coding theory & cryptology, Probability and statistics, Social research and statistics, Research methods: general, Coding theory and cryptology