ECT Brownbag: David F. Feldon

Using mixed methods in measurement: New psychometric tools to advance critical quantitative research

When: Thursday, March 14, 2024, 12:00 pm– 1:00 pm EST
370 Jay St, Room 522

Zoom Recording

Presenting work from his forthcoming book, Mixed methods for psychological measurement: Using critical realism to reframe incommensurability, Dr. David Feldon offers a new perspective on measurement formation and validation that integrates both qualitative (idiographic) and quantitative (nomothetic) perspectives and data. Through a lens of critical realism, which recognizes idiographic and nomothetic facets of human phenomena as equivalently “real,” the modeling approaches presented honor and integrate both into measurement. In doing so, they provide new tools for conducting critical quantitative inquiry by infusing quantitative models with perspectives arising from differing contexts, life experiences, sensemaking, and positionalities. By reflecting these humanistic elements of experience as necessary and intrinsic to robust measurement, the resulting metrics do not erase the worldviews of individuals from marginalized backgrounds from quantified forms of data.