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The Trunk Impairment Scale – modified to ordinal scales in the Norwegian version [PDF]
Disability and Rehabilitation, 2011 To translate the Trunk Impairment Scale (TIS), a measure of trunk control in patients after stroke, into Norwegian (TIS-NV), and to explore its construct validity, internal consistency, intertester and test-retest reliability.TIS was translated according to international guidelines.
Gjelsvik, Bente Elisabeth Bassøe +5 more
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Effects of Quantitative Ordinal Scale Design on the Accuracy of Estimates of Mean Disease Severity
Agronomy, 2019 Estimates of plant disease severity are crucial to various practical and research-related needs in agriculture. Ordinal scales are used for categorizing severity into ordered classes.
Hung I. Liu +4 more
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What Are the Priming and Ceiling Effects of One Experience Measure on Another?
Journal of Patient Experience, 2020 Patient-reported experience measures have notable ceiling effects which can hinder efforts to learn and improve. This study tested whether an iterative (Guttman-style) satisfaction questionnaire combined with instructions intended to give people agency ...
Aresh Al Salman BSc +4 more
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Methods for Ordinal Peer Grading [PDF]
, 2014 MOOCs have the potential to revolutionize higher education with their wide outreach and accessibility, but they require instructors to come up with scalable alternates to traditional student evaluation. Peer grading -- having students assess each other --
Joachims, Thorsten, Raman, Karthik
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Functorial scaling of ordinal data
Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2005 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Silke Pollandt, Rudolf Wille
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Using ordinal scales in psychology
Methods in Psychology, 2021 It seems common to believe that measures reported by participants in the behavioral sciences attain ordinal but not interval status. We consider three different measurement situations: Where one value is obtained from each of a number of respondents; where the measure is formed from combining other measures; and where the measure is obtained as a ...
Simon Kemp, Randolph C. Grace
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Should we estimate plant cover in percent or on ordinal scales? II – Diversity indices [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS)Question: We asked whether ordinal cover scales cause biases in biodiversity indices derived from vegetation plots and, if so, whether a different back-translation of ordinal categories could improve the situation.
Iwona Dembicz, Jürgen Dengler
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Attempts to Limit Censoring in Measures of Patient Satisfaction
Journal of Patient Experience, 2020 Background: Measures of patient satisfaction are increasingly used to measure patient experience. Most satisfaction measures have notable ceiling effects, which limits our ability to learn from variation among relatively satisfied patients.
Cindy Nguyen BSc +5 more
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Stroke Research and Treatment, 2016 Background. Historically, most acute stroke clinical trials were neutral statistically, with trials typically dichotomising ordinal scales, such as the modified Rankin Scale.
Aimie Nunn +2 more
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Ordinal Versions of Coefficients Alpha and Theta for Likert Rating Scales [PDF]
, 2007 Two new reliability indices, ordinal coefficient alpha and ordinal coefficient theta, are introduced. A simulation study was conducted in order to compare the new ordinal reliability estimates to each other and to coefficient alpha with Likert data ...
Gadermann, Anne M. +2 more
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