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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Item Analyses"”.
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Detailed item analyses of the Postraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5): Use in public safety personnel
… only paramedics, and detailed psychometric analyses on the PCL-5 data were not conducted. The current study was designed to further assess the psychometric properties of the PCL-5 as a screening tool for PTSD among PSP. Detailed item analyses on the PCL-5 were conducted with data from large …
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Evaluating Attitudes toward Women's Sports: A scale development and validation study
… reliability evidences for the instrument. First, item pool of ATWS scale was reviewed by subject matter experts to collect evidence on content validity of the instrument and to refine the instrument. Second, items were tested with two pilot studies to assess effectiveness of the items within the …
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Initial Development of a Medical Information Literacy Questionnaire
… a questionnaire of sixty-nine multiple-choice items to assess skills covering five IL domains. Utilizing the Content Validity Ratio (CVR) methodology, validity evidence of the test content was evaluated by a panel of twenty physicians and five health sciences librarians. A draft instrument was …
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Bureaucracy and Teachers' Sense of Power
… to test the instruments by utilizing a series of item analyses. Remaining cases were used to answer the research questions in a separate sample. Items to measure bureaucracy derived from different versions of Hall's (1961) Organizational Inventory which operationalized six bureaucratic dimensions: …
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The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure of Moral Orientation
… scale to two independent samples, a series of item analyses were conducted and items that failed to meet acceptable levels of psychometric criteria were deleted. The reduced scaled was factor analyzed and the results indicated three distinct care, justice, and self-promotion factors emerged for …
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Development of the American Indian Biculturalism Inventory - Northern Plains
… perspectives.</p><p>Results of Factor and Item Analyses produced a 25-item scale that suggested a two-factor solution. The nature of these factors were interpreted to represent an American Indian Cultural Identification Factor or subscale 1, and an European American Cultural Identification …
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Speech Production and Developmental Language Disorder in Children
… words are more phonologically complex. Fourth, item analyses were run to identify if some items presented more challenges for the children. Lastly, I ran correlational analyses to investigate the relationships between the accuracy of syllable stress production and acoustic and rhythmic …
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Psychometric validation of the multidimensional disclosure to health care providers scale (MD-HCPS)
… U.S. using online survey methodology. Based on item analyses and exploratory factor analyses, the number of items was reduced from 119 to 62 in five subscales. Further, twelve factors were identified within the five subscales (Disclosure Attitudes and Beliefs, Initiation of Disclosure, …
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A reliability and validity study of panic attack symptoms and cognitions questionnaires
… attacks from subjects without panic attacks. Item analyses were conducted on both questionnaires in order to identify specific items which differentiated panic disordered subjects from non-panic disordered subjects and subjects with panic attacks from subjects without panic attacks. Factor …
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Development and Validation of the Quality of Life Scale for the Elderly (Qlse)
… measures of quality of life, were used to write items reflecting the experience of community-dwelling elderly. The resulting scale was titled the Quality of Life Scale for the Elderly (QLSE). The QLSE was administered to a sample of community-dwelling elderly (N = 399) to determine its …
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The development of a comprehensible special education prior notice/due process form in compliance with Public Law 94-142
… field test were used to test the hypotheses. Item analyses, using both standard and educational discrimination indices, were conducted to suggest areas for improvement on the revised form. It was concluded from the findings of the study that: (1) the hypothesis that a significant difference …
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The development and field testing of an instrument to measure middle school counselors' knowledge of stepchildren
… of the KSCS took place through conducting item analyses on two pilot studies. Results of the study established a profile of middle school counselors past preparation, current strengths and deficiencies, and the need for training in the area of counseling stepchildren. The majority of …
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Receiver Operating Characteristics of the CAP Lie Scale and Correlates of Impression Management in Parenting Capacity Evaluations
… families with different maltreatment histories. Item analyses and estimates of internal consistency showed homogeneity of the L scale, though several problem items were identified. Deletion of these items, however, produced only marginal improvements in internal consistency. The 14-item revised …
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Instrument Development and Psychometric Testing of the Capstone-Experience Preceptor Preparedness Scale: The Cap-ExPresS Study
… 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 preceptors reported when working with capstone students. Methods: The subject population was clinical nurses working as …
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The Assessment Of Remote Memory
… and older-aged participants. The test items were revised based on the participants' responses. The Revised Public Events Recall and Recognition Tasks were then administered to a group of young participants to determine whether the items were primarily assessing memory for events …
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A Twin Study of Antisocial Behavior and Depression: Methodology, Etiology, and Comorbidity
… a more novel approach to measurement through item response theory (IRT) was employed. Through both measurement methods, variation in depression was found to be influenced almost entirely by environmental factors, however IRT analysis revealed genetic influences related to specific symptoms …
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Toward Understanding Team Leadership: The Empirical Development of a Team Leadership Classification System
… level of "teamness." A series of statistical analyses (e.g., exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, reliability and item analyses) were performed to evaluate and refine the psychometric properties of the measures.</p> <p>In the second study, the revised and refined measures were used to …
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Effectiveness of a program-specific assessment instrument for a department of clothing and textiles
… (1) to determine the validity, reliability, and item quality of a program-specific, assessment instrument designed to measure student mastery of core knowledge in the discipline, (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of the instrument for determining student outcomes from the value-added perspective, …
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An evaluation of a post-entry test: An item analysis using Classical Test Theory (CTT)
… (CTT) to assess the reliability of these test items. CTT is selected because this theory is the standard comprehensive procedure for developing, evaluating, and scaling test items (DeVellis, 2006). This reliability analysis is important because it is a prerequisite to the test validation …
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Opinions, Beliefs, and Attitudes, Including Perceived Value, that Virginia Principals and Assistant Principals Have Towards Mentoring for Their Job Assignment
… of variance between the groups. There was one item on the survey where a statistically significant difference was found between gender; assessment and grading (p(F) = .007). There was one item on the survey where a statistically significant difference was found between principals and assistant …
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