Abstract

DELGADO, Ana R  and  PEREZ-SANCHEZ, Jennifer. What we talk about when we talk about Psychometrics (in Spanish). Pap. Psicol. [online]. 2023, vol.44, n.3, pp.152-155.  Epub Nov 13, 2023. ISSN 1886-1415.  https://dx.doi.org/10.23923/pap.psicol.3022.

Understanding the meaning of the term psychometrics can be approached from different perspectives, such as the consultation of dictionaries, the point of view of international experts, or the analysis of a linguistic corpus. For this study, an up-to-date Spanish corpus was used as the starting point. The sample consisted of 90 valid documents from which the first text was selected so that the frequencies of the themes came from independent texts. The method used was structured tabular thematic analysis (ST-TA). The results indicate that the most frequent meaning in Spanish is that related to the analysis of the quality of measurements, followed by that referring to evaluation, and finally that of a methodological approach in general. This is consistent with the dictionaries of authorities, but departs from the majority perspective of international experts, who consider that psychometrics does not necessarily have to be linked to psychology.

Keywords : Brief texts; Corpus approach; Language use; Psychometrics; Thematic analysis.

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