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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Validity analysis"”.
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Construct Validity Analysis of the Organizational Cohesion Scale
… present research attempted to provide construct validity for the OCS. Assessments of the convergent and discriminant validity of the OCS were conducted; although the results did not provide strong evidence for construct validity of the OCS, the confirmatory factor analysis and criterion validity …
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A Construct Validity Analysis of a Leadership Assessment Center
This study was designed to assess the construct validity of a leadership assessment center. Participants were evaluated in a leadership assessment center and completed a 360 degree feedback tool designed to measure leadership. Convergent and discriminant validity coefficients were calculated …
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Identifying the Dimensions of Integrity: A Confirmatory and Discriminant Validity Analysis
… significant predictive and concurrent validity, the meaning and structure of integrity test scores are not well understood. The purpose of the present investigation was to empirically verify the results of a previous study that used an inductive method to define integrity and identify …
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Development and Initial Validation of the Asian American Racial Microaggressions Scale (AARMS): Exploring Asian American Experience with Racial Microaggressions
… is proposed: pilot study, exploratory factor analysis, validity analysis, and test-retest reliability analysis. Results, limitations, and implications of the dissertation study are discussed. Suggestions for future research are also given.
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A substantive validity study: An evaluation of withdrawal, burnout, boredom, and CWB item overlap
… work behavior, and job boredom. This substantive validity analysis examined the content of items used to measure boredom, burnout, CWB, and withdrawal. We found that 38% of the items were judged to represent multiple constructs. Most of the overlap existed between boredom and burnout items, …
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An investigation of teacher knowledge of and engagement with educational evidence
… and engagement with evidence. A reliability and validity analysis revealed weaknesses in existing measures of knowledge of evidence for primary and secondary teachers. The study also showed that there is some correlation between teachers’ years of experience, their highest educational level, …
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Mental Health Therapists' Perceptions of the Relationship between Client Gender and Personal Characteristics which Contribute to Successful Therapeutic Experiences
… ratings of item types. Lawshe’s content validity analysis identified both “essential” personal characteristics for a client to have a successful therapeutic experience and personal characteristics judged to be “not necessary.” Limitations of the study are discussed and suggestions for …
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Equity sensitivity versus equity preference: validating a new viewpoint on equity sensitivity
… of outcome/input ratios. In Study 1, a content validity analysis of items from the two dominant equity sensitivity measures reveals that the vast majority of items from these measures assess input/reward preferences, rather than a dispositional tendency to perceive things fairly. In Study 2, I …
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Norming of the Executive Control Battery in Children
… analyses. Finally, convergent and divergent validity was explored as ECB subtests were compared to other measures of EF (Stroop, WCST) as well as non-EF measures (WISC-III, WRAT-R) via multiple regression analysis. Results indicate that the ECB demonstrates adequate variance when administered …
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The making of impact: Causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation
… the manifestation and negotiation of causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation (IDIE), with a specific focus on agricultural interventions. Drawing on Ernest House's (1980) assertion that evaluations should be not only true but also just, and Donald …
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Development and evaluation of ergonomics and psycosocial assessment method for assessing work-related upper limb disorders
… work perform the reliability, usability, and validity analysis. In order to improve these limitations, this study aims to develop a new observational method known as Upper Limb Risk Assessment (UPLIRA) tool and to determine the reliability and validity of the UPLIRA tool. The initial …
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MMPI-2-RF : clinical utility with a traumatic brain injury population
… also includes revised versions of the MMPI-2 Validity Scales and new substantive scales that may better psychometrically account for personality in TBI sequelae, such the Somatic/Cognitive Scales. This study conducted an incremental validity analysis of the MMPI-2-RF with a non-litigating, …
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Psychometric validation of the Collaboration Maturity Model (Col-MM) with credit union employees.
… the adjustments made, I performed a Content Validity Analysis by collaborating with eleven subject matter experts to ensure adherence to the original theory, predict participant comprehension, and represent the entire team collaboration maturity construct. Following a survey of credit union …
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Análisis de los factores determinantes del abandono escolar temprano en La Rioja
… it, it is necessary to make a broad and global analysis, because it combines social, economic, educational, personal and family aspects. The main objective of this study is to identify the principal dimensions that explain Early School Leaving in the Autonomous Community of La Rioja. So to as, …
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Healthy death readiness: development of a measurement instrument
… individuals who were not terminally ill. Validity analysis included a Pearson's product moment coefficient relating dying individuals' scores with those estimated by primary care givers (.353, p =.026), and primary hospice nurses (.525, p =.002), and a t -test for difference between …
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M3: The Three-Mathematical Minds Model for the Identification of Mathematically Gifted Students
… this study was to investigate the psychological validity of the three-mathematical minds model (M3) developed by the author. The M3 is based on multilateral conceptions of giftedness to identify mathematically gifted students. Teachings of Poincare and Polya about mathematical ability as well as …
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The reliability and validity of ipsative and normative forms of the Hutchins Behavior Inventory
… consistency procedures. Construct-related validity was investigated using four procedures: internal consistency analysis of HBI-N scores; factor analysis of the items comprising the scales of the HBI-N; an analysis of a multitrait-multimethod validity matrix containing scores from the …
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The effect of genre-based instruction on academic speech
… in the use of target lexis, and (c) genre analysis was used to analyze how the discourse structure of the target genres changed qualitatively. The results indicated that genre-based instruction led to improvements in the participants’ speaking ability. The findings from the analysis of the …
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Middle school plunge: a mixed-methods study exploring 6th grade students' perceptions of their transition to middle school experiences and its influences on school achievement and performance for urban youth
… 136 students participated in the on-line Paired-Validity Analysis (PVA) student perception survey and 22 youth volunteered during three focus group sessions. Data were collected through a two-phased, sequential explanatory sequence (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2010). Results reveal that urban …
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Hotel Corporate Social Responsibility: Guest Satisfaction, and Repeat Purchase Intention in China's Domestic Hotel Market
… was analyzed by SPSS 19.0 using reliability and validity analysis, exploratory factor analysis, cluster and discriminant analysis, ANOVA, multi-approach regression analysis and structural equation modeling. The followings results were obtained. First, social demographic factors, that is gender, …
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