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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Response categories"”.
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Flexible Modellierung kategorialer Responsevariablen
… regression models for nominal and ordinal responses to more flexible nonparametric approaches. In order to obtain a flexible form of the functional effects of metrically scaled covariates, expansions in basis functions are used. The resulting predictor allows parameter estimation within the …
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School vocational guidance counsellors' role pertaining to a career in commerce
… A Likert type scale questionnaire with three response categories; viz. Agree, Disagree and Uncertain, was constructed. The three response categories ensured that the respondents' selections fell into one of the categories enabling the measurement of the direction and intensity of their …
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Motivational challenges experienced by economics teachers
… A Likert-rype scale questionnaire with these response categories, namely Agree, Uncertain and Disagree, was constructed. Fifty respondents representing Economics teachers were randomly selected from 16 high schools in Umlazi. The data was in the form of a response to one of the three response …
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A longitudinal behavior genetic model for ordered categorical variables
… variables was proposed. Proportional changes in response categories across time were modeled within growth curve by means of mean and variance changes in underlying continuous variables. Variances of the growth factors were decomposed into genetic and environmental components. In simulation …
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Problems experienced by teachers in a multicultural classroom setting
… A likert- type scale questionnaire with three response categories; viz. Agree, Disagree, Unsure, was constructed. The three response categories ensured that the respondents' selections fell into one of the categories enabling the measurement of the direction and the intensity of their …
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Things That Go Bump in the Night: An Examination of Magical Thinking in Young Children
… behavior was grouped into one of six No-Response categories (Obedient, Scared, Uninterested/Don't Care, Confused, Unsure of Novel Situation, and Certain the Box is Empty). When asked at the outset, a significant number of children specified they were just pretending about the reality of …
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Examining High School Students on their Ideas about the Social Exclusion of Peers with Learning Difficulties
… were excluded, and compared male and female responses. Participants included twenty grade twelve students who were interviewed on why they believed students with learning difficulties were excluded. Responses were analyzed (a) qualitatively to identify response themes, and (b) quantitatively …
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Literature as Mirror: Analyzing the Oral, Written, and Artistic Responses of Young Mexican -Origin Children to Mexican American -Themed Picture Storybooks
Data consisted of oral, written, and artistic responses to the oral readings in Spanish of four focal texts, as well as family interviews. Coding and analysis of students' responses revealed cultural connections across Sipe's (2000) five response categories: analytical, personal, transparent, …
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Effects of respondent training on self-report personality assessment: an item response theory approach
Within the item response theory (IRT) framework and inspired by the rater training literature, this study explored the effects of short online respondent training on personality item interpretation and responding and the number of response categories (i.e. polytomous vs. dichotomous) on item …
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Discovering and Assessing Desired Student Financial Services at East Tennessee State University.
… services by age and gender classifications and response categories. Although no statistically significant difference was found between the age-gender classifications on the perception of the quality of the financial services studied, the research adds to our understanding of student financial …
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Patterns of Written Response to Literature of Average Fifth Grade Readers
… analyze individual and group patterns in written responses to literature. The subjects for this study were six fifth-graders of average reading ability. The subjects attended a suburban public school which was structurally designed on an open plan model. Each day in class, the subjects read two …
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A survey of selected teacher spokespersons regarding Indiana Public Law 217
… consisting of forty-six items in five Likert-response categories was mailed to 125 randomly selected teacher spokespersons in Indiana. Space was provided for respondents to write comments or rationale for their answers. Fifty-seven teacher spokespersons responded to the survey.The following …
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Item selection methods in multidimensional computerized adaptive testing adopting polytomously-scored items under multidimensional generalized partial credit model
… format that contains polytomous items with three response categories, the DPMIX format that delivers dichotomous items at the beginning and polytomous items at the final stage, and the PDMIX format that has the reverse order as DPMIX. In general, D-optimality shows the best estimation accuracy and …
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The Social Competence of Preschool Children's Response to Conflict and Peer Acceptance in a Mainstreamed Classroom
… between peer acceptance and preschool children's response to conflict by observing an intact group of 10 handicapped and 4 nonhandicapped preschool children for six months. Peer acceptance was a child's sociometric status determined by the paired comparison technique. Response to conflict was an …
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What Makes a Successful College or University Programming Board?: Standards of Practice for Programming Boards
… obtained through interviews with these advisors. Responses that were qualitative in nature were analyzed and assigned to response categories. The data that were quantitative in nature were analyzed by calculating frequency and/or range and mean scores. The data revealed significant results for …
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Teacher and Principal Satisfaction with the Public/Private Partnership Process in Building School Facilities
… survey item. Qualitative data were examined by response categories according to the experiences teachers and principals. The Public/Private Partnership Survey was sent to the administrators and teachers of 14 public schools throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. There were 131 participants …
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Student, parent, and teacher attitudes toward video surveillance monitoring
… our nation’s schools are widely documented. In response, some schools employ video surveillance cameras (VSCs) in their hallways. Student, parent, and teacher perceptions of video surveillance monitoring are essentially unknown. This study examines the effect, if any, of the presence of video …
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Mindfulness In Parenting Questionnaire (MIPQ): Development and validation of a measure of mindful parenting
… resulting in a 28-item measure with 4 response categories. Further, results supported a 2 factor mindful parenting construct. The first factor (Parental Self-Efficacy) reflects a parent’s self-efficacy, as well as nonreactivity and awareness within the parenting role, while the second …
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Processing of plant-associated odors by a subset of projection neurons in the antennal lobe of the female moth, Manduca sexta
… among odors and to mediate a behavioral response, such as feeding or oviposition in females. This dissertation research describes attempts to elucidate neural coding involved in the processing of odors within the first-order olfactory center of the brain, the antennal lobe (AL), in female …
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A Rasch Analysis of the Mental Health and Recovery Measure: Reliability and Validity
… person reliability. However, examination of the response category diagnostics revealed that the 5-point item response scale was not used as expected by participant respondents. A modification of the response categories in which a 3-point response scale was developed revealed improved category …
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