Peter E. L. Marks
Austin College
17 Papers
101 Citations
Peter E. L. Marks is an academic researcher from Austin College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Popularity & Nomination. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 17 publications. Previous affiliations of Peter E. L. Marks include University of Minnesota & Reed College.
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Papers
The Effects of Participation Rate on the Internal Reliability of Peer Nomination Measures
TL;DR: This paper used a classical measurement perspective to investigate the internal reliability (Cronbach's ) of peer nomination measures of acceptance, popularity, friendship, prosocial behavior, and overt aggression.
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Methodological Choices in Peer Nomination Research.
TL;DR: The advantages and disadvantages of various methodological choices facing researchers who wish to use peer nomination methods are discussed, in addition to other considerations that researchers must make in collecting peer nomination data.
Popularity Contagion Among Adolescents
TL;DR: In this paper, a study aimed to support the theory of popularity contagion, which posits that popularity spreads among friends spontaneously and regardless of behavioral changes, by collecting peer nominations of status and behavior from a total of 1062 adolescents.
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Limited Nomination Reliability Using Single- and Multiple-item Measures
TL;DR: This article examined a variety of reliability issues as related to limited nomination sociometric measures and found that combining multiple items led to substantially better reliability, as combining the two least reliable items for a category into a single measure made the composite more reliable than the most reliable single measure.
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