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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"measurement properties"”.
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Assessment of the Measurement Properties of the NHCAHPS Family Survey: A Rasch Scaling Approach
The introduction of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS), a family of survey instruments designed to capture and report people’s experiences obtaining health care could soon add satisfaction as a consistent dimension of quality that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) …
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Measurement properties of respondent-defined rating-scales. An investigation of individual characteristics and respondent choices.
… data. Problems with data quality often relate to measurement method design, through choices made by researchers in their creation of standardised measurement instruments. This is known to affect the way respondents interpret and respond to these instruments, and can result in substantial …
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The measurement properties of the inventory of reading occupations: An assessment tool of children's reading occupations
This dissertation established the initial measurement properties and clinical utility of The Inventory of Reading Occupations (IRO). The IRO is a self-report and interview questionnaire that aims to measure participation in reading occupations of children from kindergarten to third grade. This …
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Novas ferramentas para avaliação e monitoramento do controle da asma para crianças e adolescentes brasileiros
… to adolescence. Objectives: To evaluate the measurement properties of measurement instruments to assess asthma control and to provide novel instruments for assessing, supporting, and monitoring pediatric asthma control for Brazilian population. Methods and results: Three studies were carried …
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Evaluating the error of measurement due to categorical scaling with a measurement invariance approach to confirmatory factor analysis
… to continuous scales in terms of their measurement properties. To do this, we first introduced a novel procedure for simulating discretely scaled data that was both informed and validated through the principles of the Classical True Score Model. Second, we employed a measurement …
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The impact of item characteristics on contextualized personality assessment
… and perceived context relevance on the measurement properties of Big Five Conscientiousness facets within the contexts of work and school. Results indicate that an item’s discrimination is related to its perceived context relevance and its level of context specificity. Implications for …
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A Randomized Controlled Trial to Establish Realistic Patient Expectations Following Total Knee Replacement Surgery
… Chapter 5 we pooled the RCT data to evaluate the measurement properties of the new KSS. We calculated the associations between KSS and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score subscales to evaluate cross-sectional and longitudinal validity and divided patients into tertiles according to their …
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The reliability and validity of ipsative and normative forms of the Hutchins Behavior Inventory
… of this study, the only evidence concerning the measurement properties of the HBI was for a form that produces ipsative scores (the HBI-I) . But ipsative scores possess inherent psychometric properties that cause problems when they are subjected to certain types of statistical analyses. Thus, in …
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PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE & PHYSICAL FUNCTION AMONG OLDER ADULTS WITH HIP FRACTURE SURGERY IN SINGAPORE
… Resilience Scale (CD-RISC10) and evaluated its measurement properties among older adults with hip fracture. Finally, I prospectively investigated the association between pre-fracture psychological resilience (measured by CD-RISC10) and physical function among older adults with surgically treated …
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Approach-iron play in high performance golf: From testing to tournament play
… to assess approach-iron ability, and their measurement properties (eg. reliability, validity) were determined. In the first study of this thesis, the Nine-Ball Skills Test was developed to assess the ability of golfers to shape and control the golf ball whilst attempting to maximise …
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Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of Neurodevelopmental Assessment Tools in a South African Context
… This dissertation explored the psychometric properties of two frequently used behavioural tools in a South African context. The first aim of the dissertation was to investigate the use, cultural appropriateness, and psychometric soundness of Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment …
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An Examination of the Impact of Attending an Electronic Technology Rich Program on the Teaching Styles of Senior Student Teachers
… comprised of four parts and designed to have two measurement properties, labeled categories (nominal scale) and variable differences (interval scale). Collected data showed a willingness on the part of the senior student teachers to use electronic technologies, as well as a possessing a strong …
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Consumers' Perceptions of Voluntary and Involuntary Deconsumption: An Exploratory Sequential Scale Development Study
… to examine the components, structures, uses, and measurement properties of scales of voluntary and involuntary deconsumption. It was also an attempt to reiterate the importance of the baby boomer segment(s) for marketing practitioners based on growth, economic viability, and the power of …
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Contingency of Work as a Psychological Construct
… measuring these four perceptual domains. The measurement properties of this scale were examined in a sample of temporary and non-contingent workers. Results showed that the measure represented the four constructs well; the measure also demonstrated measurement equivalence across the temporary …
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Development and Validation of Classroom Assessment Literacy Scales: English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Instructors in a Cambodian Higher Education Setting
… that each of these four scales had satisfactory measurement properties. To explore the relationship among the four measures of classroom assessment literacy, a one-factor congeneric model was tested using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The results of the CFA indicated that a one-factor …
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Receiver Operating Characteristics of the CAP Lie Scale and Correlates of Impression Management in Parenting Capacity Evaluations
… One aim of the study was to assess the measurement properties of the L scale. A second aim was to evaluate the discriminative validity of the L scale by way of its receiver operating characteristics. A third aim of the study was to examine potential correlates of desirable responding on …
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Co-calibration of self-reported measures of Pain Interference: the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System and the Brief Pain Inventory
… To help researchers in MS take advantage of the measurement properties of the PROMIS Pain Interference instruments while maintaining continuity with previous research, a co-calibration table was developed that transforms scores from the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-PI) to scores from the PROMIS-PI …
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Physical literacy assessment amongst young children
… Findings offered detailed insight regarding the measurement properties, feasibility and alignment to physical literacy amongst existing assessments. Study Three (Chapter Five) explored stakeholders’ perceptions physical literacy assessment. Concurrent focus groups were conducted with …
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Understanding stress measurement and adjustment in parents of premature infants
… A review of the usefulness and psychometric properties of the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS: NICU) for measuring stress in parents of infants hospitalised in intensive care units across countries</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; …
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The Development and Validation of the Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism Organizational Culture Scale
… Discussion relates to possible alternative measurement techniques which may result in better measurement properties and more discriminable factors, further development of the OC scales by including additional cultural constructs, and practical applications of such a scale.
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