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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"Rating scales"”.
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Screening Preschoolers for Autism with Behavior Rating Scales
… experience. Psychologists routinely use behavior rating scales to assess children for various social, emotional, or behavioral problems when completing evaluations in the school or clinical setting. The focus of the current study is to determine whether a behavior rating scale can accurately …
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Figure Rating Scales: A Novel Measure Of Weight Bias
… measure of body dissatisfaction is figure rating scales. For this study, it was hypothesized that figure ratings presented with pictures of obese individuals would be a novel measure of bias. Discrepancy scores from figure rating scales were highly correlated with established measures of …
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An Item Response Unfolding Model for Graphic Rating Scales
The graphic rating scale, a measurement tool used in many areas of psychology, usually takes a form of a fixed-length line segment, with both ends bounded and labeled as extreme responses. The raters mark somewhere on the line, and the length of the line segment from one endpoint to the mark is …
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Generalizabiity and dependability of brief behavior rating scales for social skills
… the development of a series of brief behavior rating scales to correspond to important social skills domains on the Social Skills Rating Scale (Gresham & Elliott, 2008) and to evaluate the resulting psychometric features through generalizability theory. Data was collected in a preschool …
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Diagnostic Decision-Making: How Much Do Behavior Rating Scales Influence School Psychologists?
Behavior rating scales are commonly used as part of the evaluation process throughout the field of psychology. Behavior rating scales help assess social, emotional, and/or behavioral problems in children, adolescents, and teens. Behavior rating scales indicate the severity of problem behaviors …
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Holistic versus Decomposed Rating Scales: Which causes higher levels of cognitive load?
… recognize this number upon the completion of the rating task (this manipulation was performed for both the holistic and decomposed measures). Stability of ratings across conditions and interrater agreement were used as dependent measures. Results indicated that the holistic items (r=.74) had …
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Executive Functioning in Children with ADHD : Relationships Between Rating Scales and Standardized Tests
… as the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. However, two rating scales to measure executive dysfunction have been developed and may be a useful adjunct to traditional measures. This study proposes to examine two such scales, the Brief Rating Inventory of Executive Function and the Children's Executive …
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Measurement properties of respondent-defined rating-scales. An investigation of individual characteristics and respondent choices.
… of having respondents individualise their own rating-scales. A mixed methodology was employed. The qualitative phase provided insights that led to the development of the Individualised Rating-Scale Procedure (IRSP). This electronic measurement method was then tested in a large multi-group …
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Development and Field Testing of Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales for Evaluating Performance in Clinical Dietetics
… field testing of a set of behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) for evaluating the performance of dietetic students. The unique feature of the instrument developed in this study (D/BARS) was that it was designed specifically for use in (1) the clinical component of Co-ordinated Undergraduate …
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The Effectiveness of Rating Scales and Semi-Structured Interview in Diagnosing Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… of this study was to compare a standardized rating scale (CAARS) used by different observers, with a comprehensive diagnostic interview (CAADID) with respect to their ability to diagnose subtypes of ADHD.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> Subjects for this study came from baseline data of 98 patients …
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Evaluating Faculty Performance: A Comparison of Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales Developed for Western Kentucky University Psychology Department Faculty
… of a comparison of Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS) developed in 2001 and 2008 for the evaluation of the performance of faculty in the Western Kentucky University Psychology Department. BARS generally are less susceptible to various types of rating error than are other rating …
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Behavior Rating Scales as Screeners for Autism? A Closer Look at the CAB-P and CBCL/1.5-5
… for autism. Clinicians customarily used behavior rating scales to identify a number of various problem behaviors and/or disorders. The purpose of the present study is to examine the utility of two common behavior rating scales in accurately discriminating between a group of preschoolers with …
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Identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Clinical Sample of Preschool-Aged Children Using the BASC-3 Parent Rating Scales
… Third Edition (BASC-3) is a broadband behavioral rating scale commonly used in medical and educational settings to assess a variety of emotional and behavioral difficulties in preschool age children. The DSD content scale on the BASC is intended to measure impairments in a child's social skills, …
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A comparison of functional behaviour assessment rating scales in a sample of children and youth with autism spectrum disorders
… correlations between functionally analogous scales were substantially lower than expected, while correlations between non-analogous subscales were stronger than anticipated. As indicated by this study, clinicians choosing to use FBA questionnaires to assess behavioural function, may not …
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La mejora de los sistemas de baremación de la eficiencia del profesorado universitario: El empleo de instrumentos BARS (Behavioral Anchored Rating Scales) y la implementación de servicios de mensajería móvil como forma de administración
… en las ventajas de BARS (Behavioral Anchored Rating Scales) ysistemas de administración mediante mensajería móvil y, por otra, minorando los inconvenientes de ambastécnicas, permita mejorar los actuales modelos de medición.Para este propósito, el autor aborda en sus investigaciones dos líneas …
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The Negative Halo Effect of Oppositional Defiant Behaviors on Teacher Ratings of ADHD: Impact of Child Gender
… disorder (ADHD) between genders: teacher-based rating bias. Abikoff, Courtney and Pelham (1993) showed elementary teachers two tapes of a male child in a fourth grade classroom, then had the teachers complete ADHD and ODD rating scales. One tape depicted a normal child; another depicted a child …
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