Roundtable
Dennis, B., Bueno, X., Asamoah, N., Jozkowski, K., Crawford, B., Turner, R., and Lo, W-J. (2024, April 11- April 14). Abortion education: A grounded theory study exploring how one comes to hold abortion attitudes. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
The current paper takes a closer analytic look at the conceptualization of “education” inside the qualitative findings of the 24 interviews included in an earlier multi-method, dual language study that explored changes in abortion attitudes over the lifecourse. We assumed that learning is involved in the development of abortion attitudes, and we asked: What is the educational source and content that people perceive as relevant to their current abortion attitudes? On the surface, racial differences in attitudinal change did not surface, but when the source and content of learning is analyzed in a more refined way, racial differences in how and what people are learning over time about abortion reveals nuances missing from the literature.
Oral
Turner, R.C., Wang, X., Lo, W.J., Bueno, X., Asamoah, N., Crawford, B.L., & Jozkowski, K.N. (2024, April 11- April 14). Comparison of Response Option Formats for English and Spanish Versions of an Acculturation Scale. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
This study investigated the impact of two sets of response option formats on outcomes of the BAS acculturation scale. Using an experiment, comparisons were made for both English and Spanish language versions of the survey. Composite score differences were small or non-significant when a middle option was included with a 5-point format compared to no middle option for a 4-point format. However, when a fifth response option was included in the lower quadrant of a response scale, to create a more equally balanced response set, outcomes for the 5-point format were significantly higher than the 4-point format. Psychometric refinements can be important for constructs such as cross-culture measurement where population subgroups can be impacted differently based on their reported outcomes.