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Showing 1 to 20 of 496 for “"internal consistency"”.
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Estimation of internal consistency and stability reliability using isokinetic segmental curve analysis
Forty normal subjects, 19 males and 21 females, between the ages of 16 and 43 years were studied to examine the reliability of Cybex knee extension curves utilizing Segmental Curve Analysis (SCA). Each subject performed a standardized isokinetic knee extension/flexion test on the Cybex II …
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Validity and internal consistency of two district-developed assessments of Title I students
… I program use were examined for validity and internal consistency. Assessment data were collected on students in grades 1-3 for seven marking periods over two school years. Internal consistency was evaluated through examination of repetitive ratings and multiple generalizability studies, which …
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An Examination of the Effects of Item Grouping on Internal Consistency and Scale Intercorrelation
… listed in either a grouped or ungrouped format. Internal consistency reliability was estimated with coefficient alpha. Grouping test items failed to increase scale reliability (.80 for ungrouped versus .76 for grouped) or decrease scale intercorrelation (.31 for grouped items versus .27 for …
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Test-Retest Reliability and Internal Consistency of Childhood Measures of Psychological Development in Adolescents with Developmental Disorders
… to evaluate the test-retest reliability and internal consistency of six measures of psychosocial well-being in a group of adolescents diagnosed with developmental disorders. Methods: Thirty-five adolescent students’ ages 14 to 22 with developmental disabilities, 35 parents, and 3 teachers …
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Developing and testing a "responsibility" questionnaire for 8th graders
… Reliability was estimated using a test of internal consistency. The questionnaire was completed by a small group of eighth graders. The test items were based on the definition of responsibility provided by the Character Counts organization. The questionnaire included twenty Likert-type …
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Labels for Anchors: The Good, the Bad, and the Endpoints
… was designed to determine if any differences in internal consistency existed between different designs of scale anchors. The three different designs explored were properly designed scales, improperly designed scales, and endpoint only scales. Two-Hundred and thirty-five participants rated the …
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Incontinence and coping behaviors of elderly persons: Instrument development
… to 64 items. A pilot study determined initial internal consistency estimates for the scale. One hundred seventy three community residing incontinent older adults participated in the major study. The demographic data included age, gender and perceived severity of their bladder disturbance. …
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The Corbett Pain Scale: A Multidimensional Pain Scale for Adult Intensive Care Patients
… construct validity, test re-test reliability and internal consistency. Thirteen male and seven female patients (n=20) were enrolled and underwent a maximum of five pain assessments each. The mean total scores of the CPS (.740, SD+1.03) and the NRS (.000, SD+1.00) were compared using a paired …
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Revealing Socially Undesirable Information: A Comparison of Bipolar Adjective Scaling Methods
… administered. Again, no differences were found. Internal consistency analyses comparing a 6-point semantic differential scale with a paired comparison scale indicated greater internal consistency for the semantic differential format.
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Psychometric Properties of the MMPI-A Harris-Lingoes and Si Subscales in a Forensic Sample
… purpose of the current study was to examine the internal and external psychometric properties of the Harris-Lingoes subscales. This was accomplished by use of both self-report and caregiver-rated external criterion measures. The present study employed an archival data set consisting of 760 …
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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE REVISED CHILDREN’S MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE, SECOND EDITION (RCMAS-2) PERFORMANCE ANXIETY CLUSTER
… mean differences across gender and age groups, internal consistency reliability for its scores with a U.S. sample, and convergent evidence of validity for its scores with a sample of 1,002 students, ages 7 to 19 years. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results supported a one-factor structure …
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Cultural Values in Context: Implications for Behavioral Intentions
… (CoBIS) was constructed using 245 participants. Internal consistency, test-retest reliability, construct validity, and convergent and discriminant validity were examined.
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Malliar Bellian Spiritual Healing from Trauma Scale: Preliminary Scale Development
… using Classical Test Theory to determine the internal consistency of the scale. A preliminary Content Analysis revealed five components, namely, hope, mind, body, spirit, and meaning making, that collectively embody spiritual healing from trauma. In this context, an item pool of 50 items was …
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Towards Validation of South African Communicative Development Inventories: An object naming/identification task for South African English and Afrikaans
… p< 0.01) for overall vocabulary scores. Internal reliability scores for only the 25 items included in the object naming/identification task and the 25 items in the MB-CDI also indicated a high internal consistency for the language domains (α=0.911). For the gesture domain, a reasonable …
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Preschool teachers' beliefs about classroom practices and how preschool students learn
… analysis techniques. The results indicated low internal consistency among the various types of teacher beliefs. The researcher concluded social desirability may be one reason internal consistency was low. Additionally, regional cultural differences in how preschool teachers approach behavior …
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The development and validation of the Adult Recollection of Parental Relating Questionnaire - a new instrument for measuring parental relating styles
… in three main studies. Study One assessed the internal consistency reliability (N=117) and the concurrent validity (N=75) with the comparable Parental Bonding Instrument (PBIParker, Tupling & Brown, 1979). As anticipated, the scales of the ARPRQ correlated positively with the Overprotection …
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Development of the Characteristics of Science Questionnaire (CSQ): Assessing Student Knowledge of the Utah State Secondary Science Core Intended Learning Outcome 6 on the Nature of Science
… The current questionnaire has 24 items with an internal consistency reliability estimate of .74. Students participating in the pilot administration may have exhibited some apathy which may have affected the reliability estimate obtained from their responses. Factors such as this may help explain …
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Examining reasons for participation in sport and exercise using the Physical Activity and Leisure Motivation Scale (PALMS)
… Scale (PALMS). This included examining the internal consistency and criterion validity of the PALMS, as well as testing the proposed model of PALMS subscales in a confirmatory factor analysis. This study also looked at the various reasons people nominate for engaging in physical activities. …
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Psychometric Properties of a Multichannel Battery for the Assessment of Emotional Perception
… current study were:</p> <p>1) To establish the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the NYEB.</p> <p>2) To examine the structure of its observed and latent variables and compare those structures to theory.</p> <p>3) To describe any demographic or response biases of the …
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