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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Item Development"”.
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The effectiveness of automatic item generation for the development of cognitive ability tests
… of online test administration, a large number of items are necessary to maintain the item bank and minimise the exposure rate. However, the traditional item development process is time-consuming and costly. Thus, alternative ways of creating items are necessary to improve the item development …
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Development of a new measure of helping at work
… scales that measure helping using a multi-stage item-development procedure. Based on a theoretical model distinguishing emotional- and instrumental helping, a multidimensional measure could not be developed. In this study, however, empirical support was found for two helping scales and criteria …
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RESISTANCE TO CULTURAL SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION: MEASUREMENT DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION.
… of oppression, the current study surrounds development and validation of a quantitative measurement tool centered on resistance to sociocultural beauty ideals and physical standards of appearance. Theoretical reviews, focus group interviews (n =33), and expert feedback formed the basis for …
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Assessing Career Decision-Making Status: The CASVE Cycle Questionnaire
… progress in the CASVE cycle. A multi-phase development process was utilized, which included: initial item development, review by the current targeted demographic (i.e., college students), expert review, measure pilot, and measure administration with item refinement at each of the first three …
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Developing a Measure of Inclusiveness: Factors, Reliability, and Relationship to Job Satisfaction and Intention to Quit
… Test construction consisted of conceptual item development, expert review, and editing by members of the participating organization to improve clarity. Survey items were administered to employees at a large, mid-western transit agency as part of a larger study on workplace climate. This …
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Development and validation of the student perception of academic challenge scale
… divided into four phases: qualitative analysis, item development, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and validation. Initial data from college students’ retrospective views and high school students’ interviews identified four key themes of academic challenge: effort, expectations, fit, and …
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A qualitative methodology to designing a quantitative assessment for the construct of scholar-practitioner using grounded theory
… the operationalized construct of SP: definition, item development, feasibility pilot, item validation, and deployment. The resulting SP Scale was developed with the intent to provide individuals with a means for assessing their own behavior in relation to the demonstrated SP identity.
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Creating an accessible block alternative for the fourth and eighth grade NAEP mathematics assessments
… The first phase of the study focused on the development of a set of Item Modification Guidelines and Item Modification Procedures, and concluded with a small pilot (n = 671 per block). The second phase of the study focused on applying the Item Modification Guidelines and Item Modification …
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Development and initial psychometric evaluation of a culturally- sensitive beliefs about personal weight survey
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION OF</p> <p>A CULTURALLY-SENSITIVE BELIEFS ABOUT PERSONAL WEIGHT SURVEY</p> <p>by</p> <p>STEPHANIE PICKETT</p> <p>December 2012</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Rosalind Peters</p> <p>Major: Nursing</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> The …
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The Development and Psychometric Testing of an Instrument Measuring the Use of Intuition by Nursing Students
… (b) measure intuition use over time. Instrument development included (a) concept clarification, (b) item development, and (c) psychometric testing. Intuition was defined as a nonlinear process of knowing perceived through physical awareness, emotional awareness, and/or through physical or …
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Development And Initial Psychometric Testing Of The Perceived Racism Shifting Survey (prss)
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING OF THE PERCEIVED RACISM SHIFTING SURVEY (PRSS)</p> <p>by</p> <p>SARAN T. HOLLIER, MSN, RN</p> <p>May, 2015</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Rosalind Peters</p> <p>Major: Nursing</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> Perceived racism …
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Measuring Therapist Adherence to a Manual-Based Treatment Tested in a Community Setting: The PASCET Manual Adherence Scale (P-MAS)
… by devoting the full focus of the project to the development of a manual-based measure that would demonstrate interrater reliability across multiple raters. This study reported on the psychometric development of the PASCET Manual Adherence Scale (PMAS) (e.g. scoring strategy, item development, …
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Development and validation of the Comfort and Conformity of Gender Expression Scale (CAGES)
… in a broad sample of adults. After initial item development, three studies were completed to assess the validity of the CAGES as a measure of comfort and conformity of gender expression. Study 1 consisted of the initial exploratory factor analyses (EFA) to determine factor structure and item …
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Effects of Plain Language Revision on Item Difficulty, Discrimination and DIF
… on their individual needs. Likewise, assessment items designed and/or revised using the principles of plain language and universal design increase access to the content area information in assessments. Colorado’s work in plain language revision of Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) items …
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Extradyadic Communication with Friends about Negative Relational Events in Romantic Relationships: Development of a Measure and Implications for Friendship and Romantic Relationship Functioning
… These themes provided the basis for scale item development for Study Two, in which the results of exploratory factor analyses revealed the initial underlying factor structure of the motives and content scales for both romantic partners and friends. Results also indicated that romantic …
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Toward Culturally Responsive and Equitable Testing: Innovative Psychometric Analyses on Contextualized Measurement and Adaptive Testing
… on cultural characteristics of contextualized items, students, and multigroup fairness from empirical and simulated datasets. The first study contributed to the understanding of culturally valid and equitable contextualized items, by implementing a coding rubric of item contexts followed by an …
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Individual differences in interpersonal dependency in older adults: Development of a measure and its evaluation in health care services
… The scale was developed in four stages: 1) an item development stage that included the facilitation of focus groups followed by a scale pilot study; 2) an item reduction stage; 3) a stage that examined and summarised the components of the scale; and 4) a scale validation stage. The 15 …
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Australian athletes' perceptions of sport psychology services
… amateur or professional sport completed the 25-item SPAQ and a demographics questionnaire. To examine athletes' perceptions, a 2 (gender) x 2 (level of sport psychology exposure) Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was conducted with the three SPAQ factors, confidence in sport psychology …
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Medical tasks self-efficacy : initial scale development
… scale was analyzed through four phases of scale development.Phase one consisted of item development which included the generation of an item pool from special occupational books and interviews with medical professionals (N=8). Additional experts (N=3) in scale construction were also consulted …
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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 …