Applying Generalizability Theory Using EduG: (Quantitative Methodology)

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About the Author :
Jean Cardinet is former Head of the IRDP Research Service, an institute created by the Education Departments of French speaking Switzerland to evaluate curriculum innovations introduced from 1970 onwards. He was also Professor of Education ad interim at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, after having been Head of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Neuchatel and Research Assistant to Prof. Lee J. Cronbach in Champaign, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago in 1952, with Prof. Thurstone. Sandra Johnson is a Director of Assessment Europe, a consultancy company active in the field of educational measurement. She has worked for many years in national assessment in the UK, first as Deputy Technical Director of the UK Government s APU Science Survey Programme and later as Technical Adviser to the Scottish Government, using G theory to guide survey design and assure quality. She is a Chartered Statistician (Royal Statistical Society) and a Fellow of the Association for Educational Assessment - Europe. Gianreto Pini has been a key methodological contributor to the theory of generalizability in the Working group Edumetrie of the Swiss Society for Educational Research. Benefiting from his experience of teaching G theory in the Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Geneva, he coauthored with Daniel Bain the G theory primer Pour evaluer vos evaluations La generalisabilite: mode d emploi (Geneva Centre for Psycho-Educational Research, 1996), from which this current book originated.

Review :
"A wonderful book. It provides in one place the fruits of twenty-five years of research carried out by its authors. An easy read the conceptual and statistical ideas are presented clearly; they are immediately exemplified in concrete terms. I have used a draft of the book in my course on G theory at Stanford and graduate students have universally found the available chapters readable and clear. The book comes with outstanding software EduG. It explains the use of this software thoroughly and understandably with extensive, concrete examples." - Richard J. Shavelson, Stanford University, from the book s foreword "The interest in generalizability study is supported by the AERA/APA/NCME joint standards. The publication of the book and the availability of an easy to use software will increase the interest and the use of generalizability theory. ... Fortunately for all of us, such a software and such a book now exist which will make our task of complying with the joints standards on reliability much easier. I will certainly make the purchase of the book compulsory for my advanced courses in measurement." - Dany Laveault, University of Ottawa "This book provides an excellent introduction to one of the most broadly defined psychometric theories currently in existence. It will clearly serve as a reference text for all researchers and advanced students interested in gaining insight to G theory. The provided easy-to-use EduG statistical computer program to compute all the analyses is a wonderful additional bonus." - George Marcoulides, University of California, Riverside "A wonderful book. ? It provides in one place the fruits of twenty-five years of research carried out by its authors. ? An ?easy read? ? the conceptual and statistical ideas are presented clearly; they are immediately exemplified in concrete terms. ? I have used a draft of the book in my course on G theory at Stanford and graduate students have universally found the available chapters readable and clear. ? The book comes with outstanding software ? EduG. ? It explains the use of this software thoroughly and understandably ? with extensive, concrete examples." - Richard J. Shavelson, Stanford University, from the book's foreword "The interest in generalizability study is supported by the AERA/APA/NCME joint standards. ? The publication of the book and the availability of an easy to use software will increase the interest and the use of generalizability theory. ... Fortunately for all of us, such a software and such a book now exist which will make our task of complying with the joi