Use Of Visual Displays In Research And Testing
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| Author | : Matthew T. McCrudden |
| Publisher | : IAP |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2015-05-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1681231034 |
Visual displays play a crucial role in knowledge generation and communication. The purpose of the volume is to provide researchers with a framework that helps them use visual displays to organize and interpret data; and to communicate their findings in a comprehensible way within different research (e.g., quantitative, mixed methods) and testing traditions that improves the presentation and understanding of findings. Further, this book includes contributions from leading scholars in testing and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, and results reporting. The volume’s focal question is: What are the best principles and practices for the use of visual displays in the research and testing process, which broadly includes the analysis, organization, interpretation, and communication of data? The volume is organized into four sections. Section I provides a rationale for this volume; namely, that including visual displays in research and testing can enhance comprehension and processing efficiency. Section II includes addresses theoretical frameworks and universal design principles for visual displays. Section III examines the use of visual displays in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Section IV focuses on using visual displays to report testing and assessment data.
| Author | : Gregory Schraw |
| Publisher | : IAP |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2013-07-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1623962358 |
The purpose of the volume is to explore the theory, development and use of visual displays and graphic organizers to improve instruction, learning and research. We anticipate five sections that address (1) frameworks for understanding different types of displays, (2) research-tested guidelines for constructing displays, (3) empirically-based instructional applications, (4) using displays to promote research and theory development, and (5) using displays to report test and research data to improve consumer understanding. Authors represent a variety of perspectives and areas of expertise, including instructional psychology, information technology, and research methodologies. The volume is divided into four sections. Section 1 provides a conceptual overview of previous research, as well as the contents of the current volume. Section 2 includes theoretical perspectives on the design and instructional uses of visual displays from major theorists in the field. These chapters discuss ways that visual displays enhance general cognition and information processing. Section 3 provides eight chapters that address the use of visual displays to enhance student learning. These chapters provide examples of how to organize content and use visual displays in a variety of ways in the real and virtual classroom. Section 4 includes three chapters that discuss ways that visual displays may enhance the research process, but especially improved data display.
| Author | : Elizabeth G. Creamer |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2024-07-02 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1040087280 |
This boundary-spanning textbook explores diverse ways that visual display can advance understanding of complex social phenomenon in applied fields in the social and human sciences. It provides a window into the latest advances in mixed methods research (MMR) by investigating how integrative tables and figures have been creatively adapted in diverse contemporary contexts where qualitative methods are prominent. The book affirms that the usefulness of visual displays is not restricted to reporting; it extends to helping investigators conceptualize a research problem, embed quality in research design during planning, advance multi-dimensional sampling, to extend analysis, and as a tool to highlight integration during reporting. Chapters feature examples that demonstrate how different shapes and textual devices that are available through basic word processing software can help an investigator to think more complexly about the multi-dimensionality or temporality of a construct, process, or phenomenon. Tailored for emerging scholars, this comprehensive resource book will prove useful in seminars and workshops designed to assist students in writing a research proposal. It is it is an invaluable textbook for a new generation of hybrid research methods courses that combine qualitative and mixed methods in the social sciences, education, and healthcare.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1997-01-17 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0309175119 |
This book examines the human factors issues associated with the development, testing, and implementation of helmet-mounted display technology in the 21st Century Land Warrior System. Because the framework of analysis is soldier performance with the system in the full range of environments and missions, the book discusses both the military context and the characteristics of the infantry soldiers who will use the system. The major issues covered include the positive and negative effects of such a display on the local and global situation awareness of the individual soldier, an analysis of the visual and psychomotor factors associated with each design feature, design considerations for auditory displays, and physical sources of stress and the implications of the display for affecting the soldier's workload. The book proposes an innovative approach to research and testing based on a three-stage strategy that begins in the laboratory, moves to controlled field studies, and culminates in operational testing.
| Author | : Warren H.. Teichner |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Color and form recognition test |
| ISBN | : |
The experimental literature on the eeffects of color on visual search and identification performance was reviewed. Forty-three studies published between 1952 and 1973 were located that gave results which could be used to determine the effectiveness of color codes relative to various types of achromatic codes. Quantitative analyses of these results indicated that color may be a very effective performance factor under some conditions, but that it can be detrimental under others. Tentative conclusions about the nature of these conditions were derived from the results and these conclusions were supported by an exploratory experiment. A guide for design decisions and an indication of knowledge gaps are also provided. (Author).
| Author | : Theo Van Leeuwen |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2001-03-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0761964770 |
The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues. The Handbook: Offers a wide-range of methods for visual analysis: content analysis, historical analysis, structuralist analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, social semiotic analysis, film analysis and ethnomethodology Shows how each method can be applied for the purposes of specific research projects Exemplifies each approach through detailed analyses of a variety of data, including, newspaper images, family photos, drawings, art works and cartoons Includes examples from the authors' own research and professional practice The Handbook of Visual Analysis, which demonstrates the importance of visual data within the social sciences offers an essential guide to those working in a range of disciplines including: media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology, education, psychoanalysis, and health studies.
| Author | : Daniel Landis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 141 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The development of a usable, valid metric of information transfer from large-scale visual displays is reported. This metric is related to multidimensional analytically derived rating scales in a set of regression equations. These rating scales account for approximately 50 percent of the explained variance of the metric, and pertinent information about the display observer accounts for the remaining 50 percent. It was also found that three traditional measures of display effectiveness, based only on information assimilation, do not accurately measure the effectiveness of displays because they fail to consider the element of decision quality. The research produced several findings about the characteristics of effective displays: small displays are approximately 8 to 10 percent more effective than larger equivalent displays; the use of nonredundant color coding increases effectiveness from 8 to 13 percent; each fact added to a display produces a change in effectiveness of approximately 2 percent; and the compression of symbols produces a 2-percent increase in effectiveness for each compression step, which can be raised to as much as 3 percent under conditions of high incentive. The results indicate that, if the critical parameters of display effectiveness (determined by multidimensional analysis of each rating scale) are included in a regression model, it would be possible to predict display effectiveness from engineering data, without the necessity of using display observers in an effectiveness-testing situation. (Author).
| Author | : Gregory J. Cizek |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2016-10-26 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 131758810X |
The rising reliance on testing in American education and for licensure and certification has been accompanied by an escalation in cheating on tests at all levels. Edited by two of the foremost experts on the subject, the Handbook of Quantitative Methods for Detecting Cheating on Tests offers a comprehensive compendium of increasingly sophisticated data forensics used to investigate whether or not cheating has occurred. Written for practitioners, testing professionals, and scholars in testing, measurement, and assessment, this volume builds on the claim that statistical evidence often requires less of an inferential leap to conclude that cheating has taken place than do other, more common sources of evidence. This handbook is organized into sections that roughly correspond to the kinds of threats to fair testing represented by different forms of cheating. In Section I, the editors outline the fundamentals and significance of cheating, and they introduce the common datasets to which chapter authors' cheating detection methods were applied. Contributors describe, in Section II, methods for identifying cheating in terms of improbable similarity in test responses, preknowledge and compromised test content, and test tampering. Chapters in Section III concentrate on policy and practical implications of using quantitative detection methods. Synthesis across methodological chapters as well as an overall summary, conclusions, and next steps for the field are the key aspects of the final section.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 836 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Aeronautics |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2021-07-12 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1351395521 |
The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis is a groundbreaking edited book – the first devoted solely to mixed methods research analyses, or mixed analyses. Each of the 30 seminal chapters, authored by internationally renowned scholars, provides a simple and practical introduction to a method of mixed analysis. Each chapter demonstrates "how to conduct the analysis" in easy-to-understand language. Many of the chapters present new topics that have never been written before, and all chapters offer cutting-edge approaches to analysis. The book contains the following four sections: Part I Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Data (e.g., factor analysis of text, multidimensional scaling of qualitative data); Part II Qualitative Approaches to Quantitative Data (e.g., qualitizing data, mixed methodological discourse analysis); Part III "Inherently" Mixed Analysis Approaches (e.g., qualitative comparative analysis, mixed methods social network analysis, social media analytics as mixed analysis, GIS as mixed analysis); and Part IV Use of Software for Mixed Data Analysis (e.g., QDA Miner, WordStat, MAXQDA, NVivo, SPSS). The audience for this book includes (a) researchers, evaluators, and practitioners who conduct a variety of research projects and who are interested in using innovative analyses that will allow them to extract more from their data; (b) academics, including faculty who would use this book in their scholarship, as well as in their graduate-level courses, and graduate students who need access to a comprehensive set of mixed analysis tools for their dissertations/theses and other research assignments and projects; and (c) computer-assisted data analysis software developers who are seeking additional mixed analyses to include within their software programs. Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
