More sensitive self-reporting of ability change using Culturometric mediation of accompanying changed expectations
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2072
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Start Date
January 2017
End Date
January 2017
Abstract
Self-reporting is a widely used qualitative data collection method. However, traditional research designs that compare self-reports of respondent’s abilities before and after learning do not give respondents full credit for learnt abilities. This is because respondent’s expectations of how good they should be also change as they learn, so their after-learning abilities are subjectively judged against higher expectations than their pre-learning abilities resulting in smaller reported differences. This significant and ubiquitous problem is recognized here for the first time by Culturometrics and resolved by partitioning the subjectivities in self-report responses. The Culturometric method of partitioning the subjectivities in self-report responses is demonstrated with a group of prisoners who learnt how to control their anger. This method is compared with the traditional analysis to reveal the previously hidden effect that changing expectations has on reducing self-reports of learnt abilities and consequently on suppressing the reported effectiveness of teaching and other therapeutic interventions. (151 Words)
More sensitive self-reporting of ability change using Culturometric mediation of accompanying changed expectations
2072
Self-reporting is a widely used qualitative data collection method. However, traditional research designs that compare self-reports of respondent’s abilities before and after learning do not give respondents full credit for learnt abilities. This is because respondent’s expectations of how good they should be also change as they learn, so their after-learning abilities are subjectively judged against higher expectations than their pre-learning abilities resulting in smaller reported differences. This significant and ubiquitous problem is recognized here for the first time by Culturometrics and resolved by partitioning the subjectivities in self-report responses. The Culturometric method of partitioning the subjectivities in self-report responses is demonstrated with a group of prisoners who learnt how to control their anger. This method is compared with the traditional analysis to reveal the previously hidden effect that changing expectations has on reducing self-reports of learnt abilities and consequently on suppressing the reported effectiveness of teaching and other therapeutic interventions. (151 Words)
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Béatrice Boufoy-Bastick (Ph.D) lectures in French and is the Professor of Language and Culture at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. She is an empirical researcher exploring meanings of culture in its multifarious forms. This has led her to initiate the novel humanistic research methodology of Culturometrics which she first developed as a scientific support to anthropological cultural identity research in multi-ethnic settings. Culturometrics means ‘measurement of Cultural Identity’. It offers operational models describing basic identity functions like ‘communication’. Culturometrics has wide application to the Social Sciences because it can reframe most, if not all, social science constructs as Cultural Identities which it then measures and explores qualitatively. Prof Boufoy-Bastick is the author of several books, has contributed many chapters to other books and published over fifty peer-reviewed academic papers.