Measuring Use Value from Recreation Participation: Comment

Minority Participation in Outdoor Recreation

Measuring children's participation in recreation and leisure activities: construct validation of the CAPE and PAC.

There is a need for psychometrically sound measures of children's participation in recreation and leisure activities, for both clinical and research purposes. This paper provides information about the construct validity of the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and its companion measure, Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC). These measures are appropriate for ch...

Putting evaluations to use: from measuring to endorsing social value

This paper examines the concept of 'social value', emphasized in the recently implemented Social Value Act. It argues that evaluations can play an important role in advocating the status of social value. Evaluations highlight priorities and interests and can offer an important way of evidencing and promoting social value in order that it becomes an active ingredient in decision-making in the co...

Measuring Online News Participation

Social plugins for sharing news through Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly salient features on news sites. Together with the user comment feature, social plugins are the most common way for users to contribute. The wide use of multiple features has opened new areas to comprehensively study users’ participatory practices. However, how do these opportunities to participate vary between...

Measuring gambling participation.

There are many parallels between research on gambling and research on alcohol use, but a striking difference is the emphasis in the former area on problem gambling rather than the use of participation measures. We outline five topics that are underdeveloped as a consequence: (i) gambling participation and future problems; (ii) moderate gambling; (iii) separate measurement of exposures and harms...