Michael Kane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3705913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Kane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kane |
| SIGNATURE | KANE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perceptions about fleeing religious persecution and entrance to the US
Using four vignettes to study attitudes toward religious persecution, a woman or man aged 22 or 68 came to the US with no supporting documentation. A General Linear Model analysed the 12 items for each vignette. Three items were significant among the vignettes: “All immigration policies and laws should be observed even if it means that M may not be granted permission to stay”; “M’s gender might be an indicator that M wishes to do harm to the US a…
Religious belief, age, and sexual orientation on attributions of younger and older gay and heterosexual men
Using 4 vignettes and 20 response items, this exploratory study investigated attributions about older or younger gay or heterosexual men with a history of multiple sex partners, substance abuse, and legal problems. The character is diagnosed with a terminal illness and two options for care: no treatment or an aggressive treatment protocol with a small chance of recovery. When controlling for respondents’ (N = 324) religious identification, freque…
The Argument-Based Approach to Validation
Validating score interpretations and uses
The argument-based approach to validation involves two steps; specification of the proposed interpretations and uses of the test scores as an interpretive argument, and the evaluation of the plausibility of the proposed interpretive argument. More ambitious interpretations and uses tend to involve an extended network of inferences and assumptions and require extensive evidence for their support. Simpler interpretations do not claim much, and ther…
Culturally-adapted and audio-technology assisted HIV/Aids awareness and education program in rural Nigeria
BACKGROUND: HIV-awareness programs tailored toward the needs of rural communities are needed. We sought to quantify change in HIV knowledge in three rural Nigerian villages following an integrated culturally adapted and technology assisted educational intervention. METHODS: A prospective 14-week cohort study was designed to compare short-term changes in HIV knowledge between seminar-based education program and a novel program, which capitalized o…
Validity and fairness
Xi’s article (this volume) lays out a broad framework for studying fairness as comparable validity across groups within the population of interest. She proposes to develop a fair-ness argument that would identify and evaluate potential fairness-based objections to proposed interpretations and uses of the test scores. The fairness argument would focus on whether an interpretation is equally plausible for different groups and whether the decision r…
Experimenting with multi-attribute utility survey methods in a multi-dimensional valuation problem
The Nature of Competition in British Local Government
Competition for the provision of local government services has become a major feature of the functioning of local government. Attempts to promote competition within local government have taken on different forms and have developed over the period of consecutive Conservative governments since 1979. Thus, competition at the local level has been promoted in compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) and through developments to housing and education poli…
Minorities in Textbooks, A Study of Their Treatment in Social Studies Text
The Nature of Competition in British Local Government
Competition for the provision of local government services has become a major feature of the functioning of local government. Attempts to promote competition within local government have taken on different forms and have developed over the period of consecutive Conservative governments since 1979. Thus, competition at the local level has been promoted in compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) and through developments to housing and education poli…
Minorities in Textbooks, A Study of Their Treatment in Social Studies Text
The Nature of Competition in British Local Government
Competition for the provision of local government services has become a major feature of the functioning of local government. Attempts to promote competition within local government have taken on different forms and have developed over the period of consecutive Conservative governments since 1979. Thus, competition at the local level has been promoted in compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) and through developments to housing and education poli…
Experimenting with multi-attribute utility survey methods in a multi-dimensional valuation problem
Culturally-adapted and audio-technology assisted HIV/Aids awareness and education program in rural Nigeria
BACKGROUND: HIV-awareness programs tailored toward the needs of rural communities are needed. We sought to quantify change in HIV knowledge in three rural Nigerian villages following an integrated culturally adapted and technology assisted educational intervention. METHODS: A prospective 14-week cohort study was designed to compare short-term changes in HIV knowledge between seminar-based education program and a novel program, which capitalized o…
Validity and fairness
Xi’s article (this volume) lays out a broad framework for studying fairness as comparable validity across groups within the population of interest. She proposes to develop a fair-ness argument that would identify and evaluate potential fairness-based objections to proposed interpretations and uses of the test scores. The fairness argument would focus on whether an interpretation is equally plausible for different groups and whether the decision r…
Validating score interpretations and uses
The argument-based approach to validation involves two steps; specification of the proposed interpretations and uses of the test scores as an interpretive argument, and the evaluation of the plausibility of the proposed interpretive argument. More ambitious interpretations and uses tend to involve an extended network of inferences and assumptions and require extensive evidence for their support. Simpler interpretations do not claim much, and ther…
The Argument-Based Approach to Validation
Religious belief, age, and sexual orientation on attributions of younger and older gay and heterosexual men
Using 4 vignettes and 20 response items, this exploratory study investigated attributions about older or younger gay or heterosexual men with a history of multiple sex partners, substance abuse, and legal problems. The character is diagnosed with a terminal illness and two options for care: no treatment or an aggressive treatment protocol with a small chance of recovery. When controlling for respondents’ (N = 324) religious identification, freque…
Perceptions about fleeing religious persecution and entrance to the US
Using four vignettes to study attitudes toward religious persecution, a woman or man aged 22 or 68 came to the US with no supporting documentation. A General Linear Model analysed the 12 items for each vignette. Three items were significant among the vignettes: “All immigration policies and laws should be observed even if it means that M may not be granted permission to stay”; “M’s gender might be an indicator that M wishes to do harm to the US a…
Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Vignette (2 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (1 works) · Attendance (1 works)