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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Instrument Development"”.
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Executive Effectiveness Profile Instrument Development and Validation
… of this research was to design and validate an instrument that measures the perceived effectiveness of an executive's behavior, as judged by the executive's superiors, direct subordinates, and key peers. The instrument was constructed around a composite definition of executive effectiveness …
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Church Organizational Culture: Construct Definition and Instrument Development
… organizational culture (COC), and to develop an instrument to measure the construct. In order to accomplish this goal, the researcher undertook a six-phase, mixed-methods study following accepted protocols for construct validation. The six phases of this research study included precedent …
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Watson's caring theory and instrument development
… the limited number of existing measurement instruments has limited research . regarding caring. The purpose of this study was to further determine the reliability and validity of the Caring Behaviors Assessment (CBA) and to validate the theory on which it was based. The CBA was developed …
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Health promotion in the young adult: Instrument development
… of the study was to develop a reliable and valid instrument to measure health promotion in young adults. Data were collected through a 44 statement questionnaire and six demographic data items. Data were analyzed through four series of reliability and validity an3lyses, including internal …
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Authenticity: Theoretical Considerations, Instrument Development, and Implications for Leaders
… a supporting assessment tool was created. Instrument development involved various analytical approaches to create and refine the tool, to test for factor structure robustness, and to conduct a comprehensive validation study that tested the instrument against ten existing measures comprising …
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Incontinence and coping behaviors of elderly persons: Instrument development
… factors in how the participants responded to the instrument items. The Coping With Urinary Incontinence Scale demonstrated high internal consistency, high stability, and strong construct validity when used with community residing incontinent elderly persons. While the beginning validity and …
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Taxonomy of etiology-specific independent nursing interventions: instrument development
… rather than hypotheses were used. Research instruments summarized data collected from nursing literature to (a) define independent and interdependent nursing interventions, (b) infer the nurse's role and source of client difficulty from nursing models, and (c) classify nursing interventions …
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Methane cold seeps: Paleo proxies, modern measurements, and instrument development
… Chilean Margin, and developed novel prototype instruments for improving my proxy measurements. Using an isotope-enabled reactive-transport model, I show that the clumped isotopic composition of MDACs (the frequency of 13C–18O bonding within the carbonate lattice) quantitatively records AOM …
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Understanding Individual Political Behaviors in Organizations: Instrument Development and Validation
… of this research was to design and validate an instrument, in the in-basket simulation format, that measures an individual's political effectiveness. The instrument's proposed purpose was the exploration of an individual's political behavior for two reasons: (1) as a new research tool to …
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Instrument development and validation for use in a health education program
… validity and reliability of a dependent measure instrument developed specifically for health education programs geared to expectant mothers and their significant others who smoke; This study's instrument was distributed to 201 randomly chosen college students participating in health education, …
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Prostate Cancer Screening Intention Among African American Men: An Instrument Development Study
… study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument to measure prostate cancer screening intention among African American men. Three gender-specific focus groups were conducted in the first phase of the study. Twenty men from two north Florida churches participated in the focus groups. …
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DEFINING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT OF NURSE WORKAROUNDS DURING MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
… administration, but currently there are no instruments available to quantify the type and frequency of workarounds that nurses use during medication administration. Aim. The purposes of this study were to: (a) complete a comprehensive literature review to understand the state of the science …
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Instrument development and plasma measurements on a 200-watt Hall thruster plume
Plume diagnostic instruments were developed and the BHT-200 Hall thruster plume was characterized in order to support ongoing computational plume models. The instruments included a Faraday probe to measure current density, a hot emissive probe to measure plasma potential, and a cold Langmuir probe …
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Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics to Latino English Language Learners: An Instrument Development Study
… and classroom observational data, a survey instrument was developed and field-tested among both pre-service and in-service teachers from diverse regions of the state of Texas. Based upon the results of data analysis methods central to both classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory …
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MEASURING CPA SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AT THE BUSINESS OWNER LEVEL: INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION.
… Responsibility (CSR). The lack of adequate development of social responsibility at the level of a business owner has led to a gap in the research in terms of methodology and of the causal relationships that social responsibility may have on variety of outcomes. This study conducts a thorough …
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Pitch resources for new music: an integrated approach to instrument development and composition
… presents a newly designed microtonal percussion instrument (the conic bellophone), a portfolio of inextricably associated compositions, in score and recordings, and a video recording illustrating the technique of the instrument. The question whether an instrument must exist in order for music to …
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Understanding Ourselves and Organizational Leadership: Theory, Instrument Development, and Empirical Investigations of Self-Awareness
<p>What is self-awareness? Is self-awareness always helpful? Studies of self-awareness have implications for a wide variety of topics in organizational behavior. Yet, this research has been scattered, resulting in gaps, siloed insights, a lack of clear and consistent conceptualization, and the …
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The Nursing assessment of readiness for instruction of breast self-examination instrument (NARIB): Instrument development
The problem of this methodological investigation was to determine differences in the scores on the Knowledge, Perceived Susceptibility, and Perceived Severity subscales of the NARIB between 20 to 35 year-old women who report compliance and who do not report compliance with the Breast …
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Instrument Development and Psychometric Testing of the Capstone-Experience Preceptor Preparedness Scale: The Cap-ExPresS Study
… novice, generalist nurses. There is currently no instrument that measures the preceptor’s level of preparedness. The purpose of this study was to psychometrically test a 67-item instrument, the Cap-ExPresS developed during a pilot study, which evaluated the level of self-perceived confidence …
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