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Showing 1 to 20 of 485 for “"construct validity"”.
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VOCATIONAL INTERESTS: CONSTRUCT VALIDITY AND MEASUREMENT
… Masculinity/Femininity (M/F) (Study 1), (b) the validity of a new measure of vocational interests (Study 2), and (c) the individual difference characteristics that discriminate between students in various academic majors, and that predict academic outcomes (Study 3). In Study 1, vocational …
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Construct Validity Analysis of the Organizational Cohesion Scale
<p>Organizational cohesion is a multifaceted construct that has been defined and assessed in a multitude of ways. For the purpose of this study, the researcher has defined organizational cohesion as the extent to which employees within an organization feel a sense of unity with one another. …
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Construct Validity Of The Child PTSD Symptom Scale
… CPSS, as well as its convergent and divergent validity.</p>
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The Parenting Styles Self-Test: Reliability and construct validity.
… and feelings about emotion. The meta-emotion construct is intended to capture parents' fundamental attitude toward emotion in themselves and their children. In research to date, the meta-emotion philosophy of the parent has been determined through a lengthy, structured interview. Gottman …
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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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The Construct Validity of Self-Reported Historical Physical Activity
The purpose of this study was to determine the construct validity of self-reported historical walking, running, and jogging (WRJ) activity. The criterion measure was concurrent performance on a maximal treadmill test. Subjects completed a medical exam and treadmill test between the years 1976 and …
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Assessment Center Structure and Construct Validity: A New Hope
… very strong content and criterion-related validity. However, researchers have been puzzled for over three decades with the lack of evidence concerning construct validity. ACs are designed to measure critical job dimensions throughout multiple situational exercises. However, research has …
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The construct validity of the behavior assessment system for children
The purpose of this study was to test the construct validity of the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC), Parent and Teacher Rating Scales (PRS and TRS). Six samples were considered, including the Normative General and Clinical Samples for each measure (Reynolds & Kamphaus, 1992). Another …
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A Study of the Construct Validity of Self-Concept Measures
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Construct validity testing of a low cost vitreoretinal surgical simulator
Objective: To test the construct validity of a low cost, low fidelity vitreoretinal surgical simulator Design: Construct validity study. Six microsurgical dexterity tasks, performed on a low cost vitreoretinal surgical simulator, were graded using a scoring rubric designed to assess microsurgical …
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The construct validity of pre-built Likert-type attitude scales
… in South Africa have neglected to examine the validity of attitude scales designed for and validated on other populations. Methods for testing the validity of attitude scales constructed using Likert' s ( 1932) sum mated ratings method are discussed and demonstrated using Dean's (1961) Social …
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An evaluation of the construct validity of situational judgment tests
… the consistent finding of criterion-referenced validity but almost complete lack of construct validity evidence. The present study evaluates the extent to which SJT's can demonstrate convergent and discriminant validity by analyzing a SJT from a multitrait-multimethod perspective. A series of …
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Assessment of the construct validity of an organizational citizenship behavior scale
This paper concerns a construct labeled Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). OCBs are unsolicited, cooperative gestures that employees choose to exhibit. While the OCB construct is professed as being quite promising for both research and practice, efforts to develop the construct have been …
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Evaluating the Theory of Cultural Tightness -Looseness: Measurement and Construct Validity
The construct of cultural tightness-looseness was operationalized at the nation-level using several indicators of economic, political, social, and religious regulation. A factor analysis with oblique rotation yielded two factors that were labeled government regulation and religious conservatism. …
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Wildlife value orientations: construct validity and a qualitative approach to measuring determinants
… first study, found in Chapter II, examines the construct validity of the wildlife value orientation scale. The predictive ability of a new, single-item measure was compared to the existing approach to measuring wildlife value orientations. A survey was administered which included both measures. …
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