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Item Response Theory Analysis of the Classroom Level Adversity Scale

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Classroom Level Adversity Scale (CLA) captures teachers' perceptions of the overall needs and challenges present in their classrooms. It reflects a collective classroom characteristic based on teacher report, providing insight into the degree of ecological risk teachers perceive when working with their students.
Allyson L. Hayward, Kristen L. Granger, Jason C. Chow   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing the targeting range of the ABILHAND-56 in relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis: A mixed methods psychometric study

Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical, 2018
Background ABILHAND, a manual ability patient-reported outcome instrument originally developed for stroke patients, has been used in multiple sclerosis clinical trials; however, psychometric analyses indicated the measure’s limited measurement range and ...
Sophie Cleanthous, Sara Strzok, Farrah Pompilus, Stefan Cano, Patrick Marquis, Stanley Cohan, Myla D Goldman, Kiren Kresa-Reahl, Jennifer Petrillo, Carmen Castrillo-Viguera, Diego Cadavid, Shih-Yin Chen   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Life Satisfaction in Parkinson's Disease and Healthy Controls Using the Satisfaction With Life Scale. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The 5-item Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was designed to measure general life satisfaction (LS). Here we examined the psychometric properties of the SWLS in a cohort of persons with Parkinson`s disease (PwPD) and age and gender matched individuals ...
Lise Løvereide, Peter Hagell
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The HAND-Q: Psychometrics of a New Patient-reported Outcome Measure for Clinical and Research Applications

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2022
Background:. The perspective of the patient in measuring the outcome of their hand treatment is of key importance. We developed a hand-specific patient-reported outcome measure to provide a means to measure outcomes and experiences of care from the ...
Kyra L. Sierakowski, MD, PhD, Nicola R. Dean, MBChB, PhD, Kathleen Evans Sanchez, MD, Philip A. Griffin, MBBS, FRACS, Justin C.R. Wormald, MRes, Jeremy N. Rodrigues, PhD, FRCS(Plast), Olivier Mares, MD, Jussi P. Repo, MD, PhD, Sina M. Hulkkonen, MD, PhD, Neil V. Shah, MD, MS, Steven Koehler, MD, FAAOS, Gregory I. Bain, MBBS, PhD, Stefan J. Cano, PhD, Andrea L. Pusic, MD, MHS, Don Lalonde, MD, Anne F. Klassen, DPhil   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of the ASQoL: a quality of life instrument specific to ankylosing spondylitis [PDF]

, 2003
Background: Although disease-specific health status measures are available for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), no instrument exists for assessing quality of life (QoL) in the condition.
Chamberlain, M.A., Cook, S.A., Doward, L.C., Helliwell, P.S., Kay, L.J., McKenna, S.P., Spoorenberg, A., Tennant, A., van der Heijde, D., Whalley, D.   +9 more
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Beyond Universal Models: Contextual Pathways Linking Student Psychological and Social Well‐Being to English Learning in Indonesia's General and Islamic Schools

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Differences in school culture and context can shape how student well‐being influences learning outcomes. This study addresses this gap by examining the relationships between psychological and social well‐being domains and English learning outcomes across Indonesian general and Islamic schools.
Abu Nawas, I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, Nina Maadad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anchor selection strategies for DIF analysis: Review, assessment, and new approaches [PDF]

, 2013
Differential item functioning (DIF) indicates the violation of the invariance assumption for instance in models based on item response theory (IRT). For item-wise DIF analysis using IRT, a common metric for the item parameters of the groups that are to ...
Kopf, Julia, Strobl, Carolin, Zeileis, Achim   +2 more
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Evaluating the realism of double moment parameterised particle size distributions in a midlatitude frontal ice cloud with complex microphysics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Uncertainties in the representation of ice particle size distributions (PSDs) cause inaccuracies in parameterisations of clouds. In this study, observed PSDs from a midlatitude frontal case study are compared with gamma PSDs with the same concentration and ice water content.
Rosie M. Mammatt, Christopher D. Westbrook, Jonathan Crosier, Karina McCusker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rasch analysis of the forgotten joint score in patients with total hip arthroplasty

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Objective: To assess the internal construct validity, including local independence, unidimensionality, monotonicity, and invariance, reliability, and targeting of the Forgotten Joint Score within the Rasch Measurement Theory framework.
Flavia Stano, Leonardo Pellicciari, Fabio La Porta, Daniele Piscitelli, Domenico Angilecchia, Maria Signorelli, Giuseppe Giovannico, Sanaz Pournajaf, Serena Caselli   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating the reliability of composite scores [PDF]

, 2009
In situations where multiple tests are administered (such as the GCSE subjects), scores from individual tests are frequently combined to produce a composite score.
He, Qingping
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