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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Multidimensionality"”.
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The Multidimensionality of Schoolgirl Dropouts in Rural Bangladesh
<p>This thesis outlines the underlying causes for girl dropouts in the secondary school system of rural Bangladesh and assesses the barriers that affect adolescent girls and their families. The complex dynamics of the historical context within the patriarchal-dominant structure of society creates a …
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Improvements on Instrumentation to Explore the Multidimensionality of Luminescence Spectroscopy
This dissertation presents experimental and instrumentation developments that take full advantage of the multidimensional nature of line narrowing spectroscopy at liquid nitrogen (77 K) and liquid helium (4.2 K) temperatures. The inconvenience of sample freezing procedures is eliminated with the …
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A critical examination of multidimensionality within the Hypomanic Personality Scale
The Hypomanic Personality Scale (HPS) is a psychometric assessment that identifies bipolar spectrum psychopathology and risk for bipolar disorders. Despite its conceptualization as a unidimensional scale, several studies have attempted to derive an underlying multidimensional structure of the HPS. …
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An investigation of the multidimensionality of supervisor- subordinate exchange relationships
This field study investigated the supervisor's and subordinate's perception of the LMX relationship and organizational outcome variables. The major purposes of this study were: (1) to determine whether the dyad is the appropriate level of analysis for the examination of supervisor-subordinate …
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Accuracy of Global Fit Indices as Indictors of Multidimensionality in Multidimensional Rasch Analysis
Most research on confirmatory factor analysis using global fit indices (AIC, BIC, AICc, and CAIC) has been in the structural equation modeling framework. Little research has been done concerning application of these indices to item response models, especially within the framework of …
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Construct Validation of a Diagnostic L2 Listening Test: An Operational Model Utilized and Multidimensionality Issues Revisited
… was exploratory to bring a new perspective to multidimensionality issues in language testing. It encouraged testing experts to revisit the issues of multidimensionality from the perspective of test users' views. It argues for the meaningfulness of test users' needs and wants to raise a …
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Video-Based Situational Judgment Test Characteristics: Multidimensionality at the Item Level and Impact of Situational Variables
A new approach was taken to identify a specific construct or dimension being measured by a video-based situational judgment test (VBSJT). Appropriate exertion of control was specifically explored in relation to a VBSJT test designed for entry-level selection of law enforcement officers. Ratings …
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A new dimensionality estimation tool for multiple-item tests and a new DIF analysis paradigm based on multidimensionality and construct validity
This thesis is concerned with two critical issues facing the testing industry today: dimensionality analysis and DIF (Differential Item Functioning) analysis. Chapter 1 develops the use of new dimensionally-sensitive proximity measures with Hierarchical Cluster Analysis and DIMTEST to estimate the …
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Cognitive Diagnostic Perspectives of a Second Language Reading Test
… the rule space, the data exhibits psychometric multidimensionality.
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Assessing the Parallelism of Four SPEAK Test Forms
… to multitrait. It is hypothesized that the multidimensionality believed to exist in the construct ""oral English proficiency"" might be statistically determined through detailed analyses of rater behavior and examinee responses rather than through analyses of holistic test scores."
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A Modified Order-Analysis Procedure for Determining Unidimensional Item Sets
… A possible solution to this problem of multidimensionality would be to isolate unidimensional subsets of items from the total set of test items and use item response theory with each subset. While factor analysis is the most commonly proposed procedure for determining dimensionality, a …
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Attitudes to multiple role planning (ATMRP) among engineering students
… Exploratory factor analysis showed the multidimensionality of the ATMRP scale. The five dimensions were knowledge/certainty, commitment, independence, involvement and flexibility/compromise. The study examined the influence of cultural orientation i.e. gender role ideology, allocentrism …
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When what is wrong seems right: A Monte Carlo simulation investigating the robustness of coefficient omega to model misspecification
… amount of unmodeled complexity (i.e. unspecified multidimensionality or error correlations). When models were misspecified, observed bias was higher when true population reliability was lower, and increased with scale length. Less variable estimates were observed when true reliability and sample …
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The nature and antecedents of work-family enrichment
… Importantly, this study confirmed the multidimensionality of the work-family enrichment scale.
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Aircraft Abnormal Conditions Detection, Identification, and Evaluation Using Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems Interaction
… the flight envelope.;Due to the complexity and multidimensionality of the aircraft system under abnormal conditions, these requirements are extremely difficult to satisfy using existing analytical and/or statistical approaches. Moreover, current methodologies have addressed only isolated classes …
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Spirituality and alcohol consumption in a general population
… Identification Test. Results sustain the multidimensionality and overlap between spirituality and religion and the need for more complete definitions. Our findings support the buffering relationship between spirituality and alcohol consumption as well as a relationship between all of the …
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An Exploratory Analysis of the Psychological Dimensions of Airline Security and Correlates of Perceived Terrorism Threats: A Study of Active American Airlines Pilots.
… reliability analysis were used to document the multidimensionality of the constructs and assess the appropriateness of the linear combination of variables used to construct the scales. Finally, correlation analysis was used to better understand which areas of airline security might be targeted …
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The nature of work-family conflict and it's relationship with psychological health outcomes
… and strain dimensions was found supporting its multidimensionality. Using standard multiple regression analysis, W2FC explained a significant proportion of the variance in psychological strain (i.e. anxiety and depression) and burnout (exhaustion and depersonalisation). Interestingly F2WC did …
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Identification of Best Modeled Test Items
… misspecified item response functions, test multidimensionality, or unmodeled dependencies among items, the new approach is designed to be sensitive to all of these. Further, whereas most methods attempt to identify and eliminate poorly modeled items, the new approach attempts to discover …
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Progressive muscle relaxation: effects of expectancy and type of training on measures of anxiety
… training. Results were discussed in terms of the multidimensionality of the anxiety construct and. the role of expectancy factors in progressive muscle relaxation procedures.
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