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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Measurement theory"”.
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Satellite Scatterometers: Calibration Using a Ground Station and Statistical Measurement Theory
… an investigation into methods for calibration of measurement surface location is conducted. Two new approaches are proposed and results of both approaches using SeaWinds data are provided. Third, measurement correlation, a critical issue related to new scatterometer designs, particularly those …
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The Problem of the Earth's Figure: Measurement, Theory, and Evidence in Physical Geodesy
… planetary equilibrium figures and quantitative measurements of the Earth’s shape and surface gravity (c. 1660-1730). I show that early geodesists made substantial empirical progress despite deep theoretical disagreements about the nature of gravitation. Chapter 2 reconstructs how geodesy came to …
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Representing and Constructing. Psychometrics from the perspectives of measurement theory and concept formation.
Social scientific measurement is much desired and much criticized. In this dissertation I evaluate one of the main approaches to social scientific measurement that has nevertheless been virtually ignored by philosophers – the psychometric approach. Psychometric measures are typically used to …
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Manufacturing Technology Adoption in Dynamic Product Environments
… integrated with a Multi-attribute Model based on measurement theory.
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Productivity measurement in manufacturing
… dissertation attempts to explore productivity measurement theory and lifting out those aspects which are important to manufacturing operations. The discussion of theory culminates in a list of criteria which can be applied to the development of any productivity measurement system. All the key …
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Conditional error variance in the WISC-IV
<p>Measurement error at different ability levels in the WISC-IV was studied to empirically test the conditional error variance hypothesis. Graduate students in clinical psychology at a Midwestern university scored fictitious WISC-IV Vocabulary subtests constructed to yield actual scaled scores of …
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Derivation of Moving-Coil Loudspeaker Parameters Using Plane Wave Tube Techniques
… derived through electrical impedance measurement techniques. These parameters are commonly called Thiele/Small parameters, after Neville Thiele and Richard Small who are credited with developing industry-standard loudspeaker modeling techniques. However, because loudspeaker drivers are …
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Construct Validity Evidence Based on Internal Structure: Exploring and Comparing the Use of Rasch Measurement Modeling and Factor Analysis with a Measure of Student Motivation
… study examined and compared the use of Rasch measurement, common factor analysis (EFA), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in establishing construct validity evidence based on internal structure with multi-item scales measuring middle and secondary students' achievement goal orientation …
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Teacher Educators' Approaches to Assessment
… Assessment Process, Assessment Fairness, Measurement Theory), were highly consistent. However, when considering teacher educators’ approaches to assessment across Assessment Themes, there was a high degree of variability. Differences in how assessment and curriculum/professional studies …
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Development of the Health Motivation Assessment Inventory
… of the Health Belief Model), and Classic Measurement Theory, the Health Motivation Assessment Inventory (HMAI) was developed to measure the concept of Health Motivation. To test the instrument and begin estimation of validity and reliability, the HMAI was administered to a convenience …
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Exploring the effectiveness of measuring social impact investment
… social impact, however without effective impact measurement, change will remain in the domains of story and assumption. This research used exploratory methods to examine the Impact Investing market in South Africa. In total, 12 professionals in South Africa were interviewed using semistructured …
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A NEW APPROACH TO ALGORITHM-ORIENTED VISUAL PSYCHOPHYSICS
… controlled sensory presentation and perceptual measurement. Theory holds that through principled application of psychophysics and perceptual modelling, the mechanisms of the visual system can be uncovered. The most common approach has been to measure and model behavioral responses to simple …
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Deriving new measurements for real-time reactive systems
… their life cycle. The integration of the quality measurement into the development framework provides feedback to the system developers in order to effectively control the development processes and to obtain high reliability of a final product. Thus, quality control is a must when safety-critical …
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The Development, Psychometric Analyses and Correlates of a New Self-Report Measure on Disorganization and Role Reversal
… scholars in scale development using classical measurement theory. The items of the CDRR were informed by the attachment and family systems literature. The factor structure of the CDRR was determined through conducting principal components analyses (PCA). The second objective, constituting Study …
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An Empirical Investigation of Several Critical Psychometrical Issues in Neuropsychological Testing of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries
… which has evolved into developing better measurement tools to study the effects including neuropsychological components. Cognitive functions such as, memory, attention, concentration, and reaction time are now commonly assessed for dysfunction in sports related concussions. Although there …
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Multi-attribute value measurement and economic paradigms in environmental decision making
… participants and the analyst, given basic measurement theory axioms. Various EE and MCDA methods have been devised for measuring value in different contexts, some of which were applied, in the context of environmental (particularly water resources) management, in six action research case …
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The Utility of Mathematical Symbols
… and the world can be found in the foundations of measurement where a scale of real numbers is applied to quantities of physical properties like length, mass and velocity. This subject will be employed as a demonstration of how abstract real numbers, traditionally construed as modeling features of …
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Optimization of Fast MR Imaging Technologies using the Case-PDM to Quantitatively Assess Image Quality
… artifacts to radiologists. We used a Functional Measurement Theory (FMT) pair-comparison experiment to measure the disturbance of each artifact to human observers. Radiologists showed preferences towards particular image artifacts, the relative disturbances of which can be quantitatively measured …
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Assessing Student Perceptions of High School Science Classroom Environments: A Validation Study
… (SLEI), an existing classroom environment measurement instrument, to provide up-to-date norms and validation evidence for a U.S. secondary school population. This instrument’s measures were established as a means of examining students’ perceptions of their learning environment in science …
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An Empirical investigation into metrics for object-oriented software
… for better standards of validation in terms of measurement theory and empirical study. From this five lessons were derived. The relatively new area of metrics for object-oriented systems is examined to determine whether suggestions for improvement have been widely heeded. The thesis uses an …
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