MOORE, KRISTIN ANDERSON; HALLE, TAMARA G.; VANDIVERE, SHARON - In: Sociological Methods & Research 30 (2002) 4, pp. 530-567
To understand children's development, one must examine an array of constructs. Yet the time and budget constraints of large-scale survey research create a dilemma: how to cut scales to the fewest possible items while still retaining their predictive properties. In this article, the authors...