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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Psychometric study."”.
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A psychometric study of the Choose Respect Measure
… three studies were middle school students. In study 1, exploratory factor analysis was used to refine items based on middle school students’s (N =501, 50% female; ages 10-15) response. In study 2, an independent confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to confirm the factor structure of the …
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Public street surveillance: A psychometric study on the perceived social risk
… support of public street surveillance. This study utilized the psychometric paradigm to quantitatively measure the social risk perception of public street surveillance. The psychometric paradigm is a method that presents risk perception in a two factor representation, being dread risk and …
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A psychometric study of student attitudes as a measure of academic motivation
<p>The problem under investigation in this study is to determine whether or not students will give an indication of the strength of their academic motivation through the attitudes and opinions they express. In other words, is it possible to construct a paper-and-pencil test or measuring instrument …
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Curriculum -Sensitive Assessment: A Psychometric Study of Tracking as a Distributor of Opportunity to Learn High School Mathematics
Psychometric analyses show that intended and implemented curriculum matters, and that it affects the student achievement (attained curriculum). Curricular implications show the need for curriculum policy makers to reduce tracking practices and to provide an enriched, rigorous curriculum to all …
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Depression in the HIV/AIDS Community: A Psychometric Study of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology and Assessment of Risk Factors for Depression
… depression among HIV/AIDS patients. The present study is the first to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Psychology-Self-Report (QIDS-SR) version which is a 16 - item measure of depressive severity, in HIV/AIDS patients. Three hundred and seventy one male …
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Fostering Flipped Classroom Pedagogy in Undergraduate Nursing Education
… undertaken to incorporate a systematic review, psychometric analyses, surveys, focus group interviews (FGIs), educational design, and an intervention-based study. More specifically, the approach included: reviewing and appraising the literature to identify pedagogical models for developing FCP …
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FROM SPORT TO EMPLOYABILITY: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION PROCESS OF A SPORT FOR EMPLOYABILITY PROGRAM.
… education and training (VET) pathways. The study is divided into four key phases: • Phase One: This phase involved an in-depth analysis of the construct of employability, specifically targeting VET students. A theoretical model was developed to account for how employability is represented …
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The initial psychometric assessment of the BEACONS positive behavior support individual and team self-assessment and program review
… and evaluating school improvement efforts. This study describes techniques for establishing the initial reliability and validity of this self-assessment to determine if the measure warrants a larger scale psychometric study. Initial results indicate that the measure has both good reliability and …
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Analyzing the Internal and External Dimensions of Hope in College Students Attending a Predominantly White Institution
… The first paper in this dissertation features a psychometric study that utilizes Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to validate the Locus of Hope scale. The second empirical paper utilized Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to analyze the relationship between student background characteristics and …
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The Post-Combat Couple Adjustment Questionnaire: A Preliminary Validation
This dissertation presents the results of a psychometric study regarding the preliminary validation of The Post-Combat Couple Adjustment Questionnaire (PCCAQ). This measure was designed to assess post-combat and post-deployment adjustment for male veterans and their female partners. The measure was …
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Engagement in community-based day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities
… the area of occupational engagement. The first study focused on the characteristics of the occupations carried out at the day centre by exploring occupational engagement using time-use diaries with a person-environment-occupation perspective. The occupations performed were categorized as social …
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An analysis of the psychometric properties of the Pediatric Inventory for Parents — Short Form among caregivers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
… illness, no studies to date have examined the psychometric properties of this instrument in caregivers of children with ASD. This study aims to fill a gap in the empirical literature by evaluating the reliability and validity of the PIP-SF within this previously excluded pediatric population. …
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Sexual health in Rheumatoid Arthritis - a physiotherapeutic approach
The overall aim of this thesis was to study how persons experience the influence of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) on their sexual health and their experiences of communication about sexual health, in order to improve physiotherapy within the field of rheumatology. Sexual health is an integrated part of …
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When appearances are misleading: Psychosocial consequences of facial masking in Parkinson’s disease
… and their partners or family members. In Study 1, in-depth personal accounts were collected of nine people who had Parkinson’s and their spouses or partners were separately interviewed about their experiences of facial masking. The study aimed to explore the common experiences and …