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The Peer Counseling Model in Adolescents Reproductive Health for Senior High School Students

Global Medical & Health Communication, 2018
Premarital sexual behavior in adolescents is at risk of sexual intercourse. One of the teenagers' factors in premarital sexual intercourse is a lack of knowledge about adolescent reproductive health.
Indah Nurfazriah, Deni Kurniadi Sunjaya, Susi Susanah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring science self-efficacy with a focus on the perceived competence dimension: using mixed methods to develop an instrument and explore changes through cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses in high school

International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background In many countries and regions, such as the United States, Europe and China, a trend has emerged in which students’ enthusiasm for STEM is declining. This decline may be related to students’ lack of science self-efficacy.
Xinyang Hu, Yanxia Jiang, Hualin Bi
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Development and validity testing of an IPF-specific version of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire [PDF]

, 2010
Rationale The St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) is often applied to assess health-related quality of life in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Some SGRQ items will inevitably have weaker measurement properties than others when
Jones, PW, Swigris, JJ, Yorke, J
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IRT‐based response style models and related methodology: Review and commentary

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract We provide a review and commentary on recent methodological research related to item response theory (IRT) modelling of response styles in psychological measurement. Our review describes the different categories of IRT models that have been proposed, their associated assumptions and extensions, and the varying purposes they can serve.
Daniel M. Bolt, Lionel Meng
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a quality of life measure for left ventricular assist device recipients using a mixed methods approach

ESC Heart Failure
Background Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) recipients report symptom improvement but find adjusting to life with the LVAD challenging. These challenges are unique, and existing patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) do not reflect their ...
Anita L. Slade, Christel McMullan, M. Sayeed Haque, Stephen Griffith, Laura Marley, David Quinn, Margaret E. O'Hara, Mike Horton, Melanie J. Calvert, Hoong Sern Lim, Deirdre A. Lane   +10 more
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Latent Poisson count models for action count data from technology‐enhanced assessments

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent advances in computerized assessments have enabled the use of innovative item formats (e.g., drag‐and‐drop, scenario‐based), necessitating a flexible model that can capture systematic influence of item types on action counts. In this study, we present a refinement scheme that can explicitly model common features of items and allows ...
Gregory Arbet, Hyeon‐Ah Kang
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible Rasch Mixture Models with Package psychomix

Journal of Statistical Software, 2012
Measurement invariance is an important assumption in the Rasch model and mixture models constitute a flexible way of checking for a violation of this assumption by detecting unobserved heterogeneity in item response data.
Hannah Frick, Carolin Strobl, Fredrich Leisch, Achim Zeileis   +3 more
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Both Hands Assessment for children and adolescents with bilateral cerebral palsy: Content and construct validity

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
This cross‐sectional study reports on the content and construct validity of the Both Hands Assessment (BoHA) for measuring bimanual performance in children and adolescents with bilateral cerebral palsy (MACS levels I–III), aged 18 months to 18 years. Abstract Aim To investigate the content and construct validity of the Both Hands Assessment (BoHA) for ...
Gøril Okkenhaug Johansen, Annoek Louwers, Melanie Hessenauer, Kari Anne Indredavik Evensen, Guro Lillemoen Andersen, Ann‐Kristin Gunnes Elvrum   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factor validation and Rasch analysis of the individual recovery outcomes counter [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: The Individual Recovery Outcomes Counter is a 12-item personal recovery self assessment tool for adults with mental health problems. Although widely used across Scotland, limited research into its psychometric properties has been conducted. We
Dickens, Geoffrey L., Hallett, Nutmeg, Hardie, Scott M., Ion, Robin M., Rudd, Bridey   +4 more
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The Roles of Vocabulary Size, Word Part Knowledge, and Semantic Transparency in Vocabulary Learning Through the Word Part Technique

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of learner‐ and word‐related variables on L2 vocabulary learning through the word part technique (WPT), a morphological mnemonic designed to strengthen form–meaning associations through knowledge of affixes and stems.
Gaia Oikawa, Masato Sugawara, Takumi Uchihara   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source