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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"instrument validation"”.
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Trust and Distrust Scale Development: Operationalization and Instrument Validation
… of extant, validated trust and distrust instruments combined with newly created trust and distrust items were used as input into a rigorous Q-sorting procedure. The Q-sorting process led to the first contribution of this research: a determination that individual trust and distrust are …
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A Gender -Specific Alcohol Use Disorders Screening Instrument: Validation of a Measure
Most current screening instruments are less likely to detect problematic alcohol use among women than men. This study determined the sensitivity of WOMAN Screen, a gender-specific alcohol use disorders screening instrument proposed to more effectively identify problematic alcohol use among women. …
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Assessing Academic Advisement Preferences Among Master’s Students: A Modification of the Prescriptive/Developmental Preference Scale
… with undergraduate students, found that the instrument had construct validity issues, especially regarding the Prescriptive construct. This study aimed to modify and expand the PDPS to reliably assess master’s students’ advisement preferences and improve construct validity among the …
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Development of an instrument for accessing quality of a Convention and Visitors Bureau Web site
… In addition, this study developed a valid instrument for measuring the quality of CVB web sites, as perceived by meeting planners. Instrument development was based the content analysis of the CVB web sites of the top 10 US convention cities and an extensive literature review of the major …
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Development and Validation of the Sense of Competence Scale-Revised (SCS-R)
The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure the sense of competence of traditional age college students across the dimensions that define the construct. The Sense of Competence Scale-Revised (SCS-R) was developed to provide a measure of Chickering’s (1969) first vector, an …
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Validating an Icelandic Version of the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation Inventory
… of this dissertation is the translation and validation of the MUSICSM Model of Academic Motivation Inventory (MMAMI; Jones, 2012) from English into Icelandic. The purpose for the translation is to provide Icelandic educators with a tool to assess students' motivation in the science classroom. …
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Diffusing nursing theory through nursing continuing education: knowledge, beliefs, and practices of nursing continuing education providers
… theory courses, (e) teaching strategies, (f) instrument validation, and (g) responsibilities of the American Nurses’ Association and the National League for Nursing.
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Understanding Individual Political Behaviors in Organizations: Instrument Development and Validation
… of this research was to design and validate an instrument, in the in-basket simulation format, that measures an individual's political effectiveness. The instrument's proposed purpose was the exploration of an individual's political behavior for two reasons: (1) as a new research tool to …
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Executive Effectiveness Profile Instrument Development and Validation
… of this research was to design and validate an instrument that measures the perceived effectiveness of an executive's behavior, as judged by the executive's superiors, direct subordinates, and key peers. The instrument was constructed around a composite definition of executive effectiveness …
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Determinants of intention to study abroad among nursing and midwifery students: an application of the theory of planned behaviour
… development of the TPB questionnaire, including instrument validation measures and the subsequent pilot testing. Phase three involved conducting the online TPB survey and data analysis. Manifest content analysis was used for the qualitative data, while the quantitative data were analysed using …
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Factors Affecting Perceptions of Cybersecurity Readiness Among Workgroup IT Managers
… related to information security. First, a survey instrument is proposed and validated. Then, a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) is conducted to examine the relationships between the observed variables and the underlying theoretical constructs. Finally, the model is tested using path analysis. …
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Efficacité de la consultation selon la perspective du consultant : mesure et contribution de l'alliance de travail et de la théorie de l'attachement
… vise à élaborer et à valider un nouvel instrument de mesure de l’efficacité de la consultation en gestion. Pour y parvenir, le Questionnaire d’efficacité de la consultation, version consultant (QEC-CO), a été développé à partir d’une recension exhaustive de la documentation. Son contenu …