Journal article

An online platform for sociocognitive metrology: the BEAR Assessment System Software

William P Fisher, Mark Wilson

MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2020

Abstract

Multiple recent collaborations of metrology engineers and psychometricians have identified new areas of common interest and shared methods. Of particular note are criteria for well-defined measurands and unit quantities that retain their properties across samples and instruments. Such criteria are integrated into the BEAR Assessment System (BAS) and also into its accompanying software, the BEAR Assessment System Software (BASS), an online application built on the idea of measurement scales that stand for generalized invariant patterns of abilities, health states, behaviours, etc. The repeatable stability of these structures has been established for decades, with metrological potentials of in..

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Awarded by US Institute for Education Sciences


Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by a grant from the US Institute for Education Sciences (award R305A120217). Technical staff include D. Torres Irribarra, R. Freund, A. M. Albornoz Reitze, S. Khan, D. Stanfield, S. Tutunciyan, R. Vorp and M. Kendall (all with the University of California, Berkeley).