Developing Valid Knowledge Scales

By Jeffery J. Mondak. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The choice for multilateralism: Foreign aid and American foreign policy (2012, unknown): “First, the political opinion literature is divided on how best to deal with the fact that people might not have clear, salient positions (Mondak 2001).”
Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain (2003, background): “There is a literature suggesting that the inclusion of ‘don’t know’ in the possible response set of survey questions threatens validity, as ‘don’t know’ responses may reflect propensity to guess (which can inflate the scores of uninformed respondents) or may reflect caution (which can deflate the sc”
Misinformed About the Affordable Care Act? Leveraging Certainty to Assess the Prevalence of Misperceptions (2015, unknown): “A “Don’t Know” option was not offered (cf. Mondak, 2001; Mondak & Davis, 2001).2 Twelve of the items were about requirements or provisions in the ACA; the rest were about provisions that were not in the legislation (see Table 1).”
Partisan News and Political Participation: Exploring Mediated Relationships (2016, background): “Our focus also overcomes the various problems with measuring knowledge using accuracy questions about political facts or figures (Mondak, 2001) and is more parsimonious than issue-based knowledge measures.”
Belief Network Analysis: A Relational Approach to Understanding the Structure of Attitudes (2017, methodology): “Since this quiz-based measure can confound knowledge with personality traits such as confidence and competitiveness (Mondak 2000, 2001), we also make use of the interviewers’ subjective assessments how informed the respondent appeared (two items, 0–4 points each).”
Visual Political Knowledge: A Different Road to Competence? (2013, background): “In the visual-only condition, questions asked about individuals shown by photographs.”
Stereotype Threat and Race of Interviewer Effects in a Survey on Political Knowledge (2003, background): “However, Mondak (2001) argues that discouraging the " Don't Know " response does not eliminate guessing, but rather such discouragement creates a validity problem because it activates a differential propensity to guess.”
The Question(s) of Political Knowledge (2014, background): “12 The identities of the prime minister of Great Britain and the president of Russia are facts that were established more than 100 days before the survey, making them both static facts. because previous work has documented the importance of survey protocol (e.g., Mondak 2001).”
Quiz-Style Question Generation for News Stories (2021, unknown): “There has also been work showing the advantages of the multiple-choice question format for assessing knowledge [30], and the disadvantage of selfassessing knowledge due to the Dunning-Kruger effect [3].”