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dc.contributor.authorPrice, Leigh
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-12T12:59:30Z
dc.date.available2023-10-12T12:59:30Z
dc.date.created2023-09-27T12:16:55Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationNordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. 2023, 9, 174-194.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2387-5739
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3096160
dc.description© 2023 Leigh Price. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en_US
dc.description.abstractBoth Sigve Høgheim and I advance a similar critique of representationalism, operationalism and construct validity as found in psychology. Our respective critiques hinge on the way that these concepts do not adequately consider the ontological question about the reality of our constructs. Høgheim suggests that we can circumvent the problem by returning to the classic definition of measurement which avoids “coding,” but I think that avoiding coding (representation, modelling, theorising) is impossible. Instead of trying to avoid it, I suggest that we embrace it, using a number of critical realist concepts such as emergence, layered reality, retroduction, judgemental rationalism and the semiotic triangle. I also argue that the current approach to operationalism reflects a deep contradiction, known as the epistemic fallacy, in which scientists reduce questions of ontology to questions of epistemology. Nevertheless, despite their contradictory version of science, research scientists in the fields of psychology and education still manage to discover things about the world, but in order to do so, they need to break their own rules. Høgheim wants such scientists to avoid the contradiction – the breaking of the rules of science – by remaining faithful to Euclid, Newton, and Descartes. On the contrary, I suggest that the contradiction can be avoided by changing the theory of science to a more adequate, critical realist version that better reflects the scientific practice of psychologists and educators.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectcritical realismen_US
dc.subjectmeasurement in educationen_US
dc.subjectconstruct validityen_US
dc.subjectoperationalismen_US
dc.subjectinstrumentalismen_US
dc.titleA Critical Realist Critique of “Measurement in Quantitative Educational Research: An Instrumental Mistake?” by Sigve Høgheimen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280en_US
dc.source.pagenumber174-194en_US
dc.source.volume9en_US
dc.source.journalNordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikken_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.23865/ntpk.v9.5660
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