Novel insights regarding the measurement properties of the SCOPA-AUT
BMC Neurology, 2022 Background The Scale for Outcomes in Parkinson’s disease for Autonomic symptoms (SCOPA-AUT) is an instrument intended to assess overall and domain-specific autonomic symptom burden.
Albert Westergren +3 more
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Theory Referenced Measurement: Combining Substantive Theory and the Rasch Model
, 2022 AbstractA construct theory is the story we tell about what it means to move up and down the scale for a variable of interest (e.g., temperature, reading ability, short term memory). Why is it, for example, that items are ordered as they are on the item map? The story evolves as knowledge regarding the construct increases.
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Psychometric evaluation of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) with Dupuytren's contracture: validity evidence using Rasch modeling [PDF]
, 2014 Background Dupuytren’s contracture is a progressive, fibroproliferative disorder that causes fixed finger contractures and can lead to disability. With the advances of new therapeutic interventions, the necessity to assess the functional repercussions of
Forget, Nancy J +3 more
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Pythagoras, 2014 Mathematical Literacy (ML) is a relatively new school subject that learners study in the final 3 years of high school and is examined as a matric subject.
Caroline Long +2 more
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The direction of the response scale matters - accounting for the unit of measurement [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose: Psychometric analyses of self-administered questionnaire data tend to focus on items and instruments as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the functioning of the response scale and its impact on measurement precision.
Koller, Monika, Salzberger, Thomas
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Mandible composition and properties in two selected praying mantises (Insecta, Mantodea)
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Insects process their food with their cuticle‐based mouthparts. These feeding structures reflect their diversity and can, in some cases, showcase adaptations in material composition, mechanical properties, and shape to suit their specific dietary preferences.
Malo Roze +3 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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Children With ASD Do Not Understand Hidden Emotions Before False Belief Attribution
Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies concluded that theory of mind (ToM) development is deviant in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Typically developing children's ability to understand that one may hide their emotion would be acquired before false belief understanding in children with ASD (e.g., Peterson and Wellman 2019), but with contradictory results (e.g ...
Morgane Burnel +5 more
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Rasch analysis of the forgotten joint score in patients with total hip arthroplasty
Journal of Rehabilitation MedicineObjective: 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 +8 more
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Mapping Impossible Utilities: The ICER Report on Tezepelumab for Severe Asthma
INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2022 The focus of this commentary is on the attempt to create EQ-5D-3L ordinal preferences from a disease specific asthma questionnaire, the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ).
Paul C Langley
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