The aim of this project is to take steps toward developing a measurement approach to the sort of complex (transcribed) interview data that are so commonly used in educational and psychological research.The specific context is a large body of interviews that have been gathered to study the development of moral judgment (from Kohlbergian studies, and some from other domains). The project will examine the scoring behavior of expert scorers in order to study the structural criteria they employ in scoring, and employ the data to test the identified criteria.
The project will develop measurement approaches suitable for interview data and measurement models that can accommodate the important features of both interview data and the stage-like development processes that are hypothesized. The plan is to computerize aspects of the scoring and measuring process in order to make stage assessment cheaper and more efficient, and to facilitate a more detailed analysis of developmental change as reflected in interview performances.
The principal investigators are Mark Wilsonand Theo Dawson.