Subject: Re: Paired Comparisons From: Geoff Meltzner <geoff(at)MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:52:35 -0500--=====================_3692359==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Try the following references: Guilford, J.P. (1954) Psychometric Methods especially Chapt. 7 Torgerson, W.S (1958) Theory and Methods of Scaling Those should be enough to start you off. Let me know if you have any other questions. -Geoff At 02:45 PM 3/18/2003 +0000, ZL Handley wrote: >Hi > >I am currently evaluating the use of speech synthesis for computer- >assisted language learning. I want to do some percetual tests >using the paired comparison technique. I understand the basic >technique but have not found any information on how to analyse the >results of such tests. I was wondering whether anyone could point >me to an article or text book that would explain how to do this. > >Thanks > >Zoe Handley >---------------------------------------------------------- >PhD by research (subject: Evaluation of speech synthesis for computer >assisted langauge learning) >Centre for Computational Linguistics - MB/C25c >UMIST PO Box 88 Manchester M60 1QD UK >zoe.handley(at)postgrad.umist.ac.uk --=====================_3692359==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> Try the following references:<br><br> Guilford, J.P. (1954) <u>Psychometric Methods</u> especially Chapt. 7<br><br> Torgerson, W.S (1958) <u>Theory and Methods of Scaling<br><br> </u>Those should be enough to start you off. Let me know if you have any other questions.<br><br> -Geoff<br><br> <br> At 02:45 PM 3/18/2003 +0000, ZL Handley wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi<br><br> I am currently evaluating the use of speech synthesis for computer-<br> assisted language learning. I want to do some percetual tests<br> using the paired comparison technique. I understand the basic<br> technique but have not found any information on how to analyse the<br> results of such tests. I was wondering whether anyone could point<br> me to an article or text book that would explain how to do this.<br><br> Thanks<br><br> Zoe Handley<br> ----------------------------------------------------------<br> PhD by research (subject: Evaluation of speech synthesis for computer assisted langauge learning)<br> Centre for Computational Linguistics - MB/C25c<br> UMIST PO Box 88 Manchester M60 1QD UK<br> zoe.handley(at)postgrad.umist.ac.uk </blockquote></html> --=====================_3692359==_.ALT--