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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Survey development"”.
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Faculty internationalization perceptions survey : development and validation
… validate the Faculty International Perceptions Survey (FIPS) involved a pilot study, the use of a web based application known as Question Understanding AID (QUAID), and an expert review. As a result an initial survey was developed and sent via electronic mail to faculty members in three …
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An exploratory study of college students' attitudes toward dietary protein: Development of a dietary protein assessment survey instrument
… of this exploratory study was to develop a survey to estimate college students’ attitudes towards dietary protein. The dimensionality of the attitude constructs in the Dietary Protein Assessment Survey (DPAS) instrument was explored in this study. The survey consisted of 64 questions, …
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The Development of a Survey to Assess the Type of Capacity within Nonprofit Sport Organizations
… study was to develop a valid and reliable survey to categorize nonprofit sport organizations into capacity types identified by Stevens (Stevens, 2006). This quantitative research study offers a preliminary development towards achieving a reliable and valid tool for assessing types of …
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The Value of a Career in Teaching: The Development of a Survey to Examine the Reasons why Veteran Teachers Remain in the Classroom
… of this study was to develop and validate a survey instrument for the exploration of the reasons why teachers remain in the classroom and the value that a teaching career holds for experienced teachers. The study utilized the knowledge and experiences of teachers throughout the survey …
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Development and pilot of a survey to build capacity for examining interactions of constraints to sport participation among adolescent girls
… The purpose of this thesis was to develop a survey which collects data on constraints to SP, and pilot it on adolescent girls residing in Durham Region, Ontario. A comprehensive list of constraints was generated from the literature. The research was guided by Newell’s model of constraints …
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Adapting a hazards-risk model to water scarcity in rural India : Aurangabad case study
… India. Through engagements with the Groundwater Survey Development Agency, and Maharashtra State Government Water Supply and Sanitation Department, we selected Aurangabad District to conduct field visits and develop a model that can spatially represent risk of villages to water scarcity. Within …
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Support for Higher Education: Perceptions of Selected University Administrators and Legislators in Tennessee
… The principal investigator used a web-based survey development company to design, collect, and store survey responses.</p><p>Results obtained from the study were examined using independent samples t tests, one-way ANOVAs, and a Pearson correlation coefficient. From these tests, 8 out of 13 …
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Rasch Analysis of Relational Well-Being Within the National Survey of Adoptive Parents of 2007: A Comparison of Multidimensional, Consecutive, and Unidimensional Approaches to Measure Construction
… whether the data collected through the National Survey of Adoptive Parents of 2007 (NSAP) for the well-being items represented a single latent construct and to establish a base model for comparison. A consecutive approach was then used as an exploratory tool to draw out potential multiple …
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Developing and validating a survey for classroom-based sense of belonging in computing
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Senior Leadership Commitment to Continuous Process Improvement for a Culture Change: A Case Study of a U.S. Air Force Organization
… committed to continuous process improvement and surveys the personnel under this leadership to determine if a culture change has occurred. To appreciate the struggle the Air Force has been through trying to create this culture of process improvement, the past must be understood. Therefore, this …
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Promoting Positive Development Among Rural, Left-Behind Youth in China: A Mixed-Methods Approach
<p>The positive youth development (PYD) framework has shifted our attention from a deficit-based approach to a strength-based perspective to studying adolescent development (Lerner, 2005; Lerner & Steinberg, 2009). Integrating both the PYD and resilience science frameworks, this study developed and …
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Development of a Measure of Interprofessional Collaboration Among School Mental Health Professionals
<p>Collaboration is frequently put forth as one way to improve academic, behavioral, and social-emotional outcomes for K-12 students. Yet to date, there is little evidence-based research supporting this claim (Mellin, 2009; Trach, 2012). In order to collect such research, collaboration must be a …
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An initial study to develop instruments and validate the Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators (ECPE)
… study was to develop instruments (a web-based survey and interview protocol) to initially validate the Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators using Messick's (1989, 1995a, 1995b) concept of unitary validity as a framework. The validated evaluator competencies can be used to enhance the …
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Meaning-Making Among Medical Students: Development of a Quantitative Measure of Self-Authorship
… can have an important impact on psychosocial development. The premedical baccalaureate is the traditional preparation for medical school, although many medical schools also offer a separate entry path through early assurance programs that provide conditional acceptance in the sophomore year of …
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Development and Validation of the Cultural Competence of Program Evaluators (CCPE) Scale
<p>As part of its <em>Guiding Principles for Evaluators,</em> the American Evaluation Association (AEA) requires that evaluators develop cultural competencies, yet no measure of cultural competence currently exists in the field. Using items from cultural competence measures used in fields such as …
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Development and Validation of Supervisory and Organizational Support Measures
… The Supervisory and Organizational Support (SOS) survey instrument was created in response to the need for reliable and valid instruments to measure issues related to child welfare workforce turnover. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the SOS survey …
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Impact of Total Quality Management, work teams, and Just-In-Time on the performance of the Mexican manufacturing industry
… Award, and Mexican National Quality Award, a survey questionnaire was developed. It contained variables of the TQM, WT, and JIT practices which were measured on a five-point Likert type scale for all items to ensure higher statistical variability among survey responses- The respondents were …