Principal goals at school: evaluating construct validity and response scaling format
Frontiers in PsychologyThe purpose of the present study was to test the efficacy and appropriateness of the 4-point response option of the Principal’s Goals Scale of the SASS (1999–2000) survey.
Faye Antoniou, Mohammed H. Alghamdi
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background The European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) is widely used in assessing health literacy (HL). There has been some controversy whether the comprehensive HLS-EU-Q47 data, reflecting a conceptual model of four cognitive domains
Hanne Søberg Finbråten +5 more
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The development and validation of a new resilience inventory based on inner strength
Scientific Reports, 2023 There are a number of resilience scales with good psychometric properties. However, the various scales differ in their item content in accordance with the model of resilience the developer had in mind.
Tinakon Wongpakaran +6 more
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Probabilistic Outcome of Rasch Polytomous Model Upon Measurement of Statistical Learning [PDF]
The Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2018 Assessing students’ ability in learning statistics has been a challenge for many statistical educators. To be able to know exactly how well students have learned and mastered the statistical contents can be difficult without the use of proper measurement tools. Even though types of assessment of students learning differ from one instructor to another,
Zamalia Mahmud +4 more
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Differential item functioning detection across multiple groups
British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Differential item functioning (DIF) can be investigated by estimating item response theory (IRT) parameters separately for different respondent groups, thus allowing for the detection of discrepancies in parameter estimates across groups. However, before comparing the estimates, it is necessary to convert them to a common metric due to the ...
Michela Battauz
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Constructing College Academic Resilience Scale: Using Multifactor and Polytomous Rasch Model
COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and EducationAcademic resilience is crucial for students. It enhances their ability to manage academic difficulties, which underscores its importance in educational settings. This study aims to develop and validate the College Academic Resilience Scale (CARS), which
Siti Dini Fakhriya +9 more
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Reducing the length of a Goldberg Based Personality Questionnaire using Item Response Theory & Confirmatory Factor Analysis : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2006 Objectives: This study seeks to reconstitute an existing personality questionnaire by identifying the items that capture the best quality information as measured through item Response Theory (IRT).
Phillips, Nathan Conrad
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Psychometric Evaluation of an Instrument to Measure Prospective Pregnancy Preferences: The Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale. [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND:Existing approaches to measuring women's pregnancy intentions suffer important limitations, including retrospective assessment, overly simple categories, and a presumption that all women plan pregnancies. No psychometrically valid scales exist
Foster, Diana G +4 more
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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 +5 more
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Applying Item Response Theory (IRT) Modeling to an Observational Measure of Childhood Pragmatics: The Pragmatics Observational Measure-2 [PDF]
, 2019 Assessment of pragmatic language abilities of children is important across a number of childhood developmental disorders including ADHD, language impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Cordier, Reinie +5 more
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