Visiting Scholar Rob Cavanagh, PhD is a Professor and Director of Research in the School of Education at Curtin University. His passion is about well-being metrics—the measurement of attributes of persons and phenomena in the human sciences that contribute to individual and collective well-being. He will be discussing theoretical and practical issues that arise in the measurement and human abilities and attributes. Specifically:
• The nature of measurement
• Construct models
• Uni-dimensionality and multi-dimensionality
• Sufficiency and invariance
• Discrimination
• Generalizability
• Targeting
• Response scales
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