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Overcoming the Paradox of Measuring Self‐Awareness Development by Focusing on Outcomes

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many HRD interventions aim to enhance self‐awareness to shape employee behavior, to develop skills, or as a performance‐related outcome. But measuring this development faces significant metacognitive challenges: self‐awareness changes when one's attention is directed to it, and self‐report relies on accurate self‐awareness.
Anna Sutton, Samantha Carey
wiley   +1 more source

PSYCHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE MANCHESTER FOOT PAIN AND DISABILITY INDEX: VALIDATION AND RASCH ANALYSIS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: The Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index (MFPDI) is a self-assessment questionnaire developed in the UK to measure foot pain and disability in the general population1.
Alcacer-Pitarch, Begonya   +6 more
core  

Role of the Functional Gait Assessment in Validating Item Difficulty Hierarchy and Fall Risk for Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Falls along with gait‐balance disturbances are important symptoms of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH). Objectives This study aimed to validate the Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) item‐difficulty hierarchy, determine its optimal fall cutoff value, and identify key items for assessing fall risk in iNPH.
Yasutaka Nikaido   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

TopicResponse: A Marriage of Topic Modelling and Rasch Modelling for Automatic Measurement in MOOCs [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2016
This paper explores the suitability of using automatically discovered topics from MOOC discussion forums for modelling students' academic abilities. The Rasch model from psychometrics is a popular generative probabilistic model that relates latent student skill, latent item difficulty, and observed student-item responses within a principled, unified ...
arxiv  

Development and Preliminary Validation of a Parkinsonism‐Dystonia Scale for Infants and Young Children

open access: yesMovement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Parkinsonism in infancy is rare and is highly correlated with the presence of dystonia. Advances in treating and characterizing developmental and infantile degenerative parkinsonism have highlighted the need for a specialized assessment scale.
Roser Pons   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rasch Scaling of a Screening Instrument

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2014
The ERIraos Checklist (CL) is a screening instrument for assessing psychosis risk. Measuring CL data on a Rasch scale means that this scale locates individuals on a dimension of “proximity to psychosis onset” according to their current prodromal status ...
K. Maurer, H. Häfner
doaj   +1 more source

Strong Gaussian approximation of the mixture Rasch model [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2016
We consider the famous Rasch model, which is applied to psychometric surveys when n persons under test answer m questions. The score is given by a realization of a random binary (n,m)-matrix. Its (j,k)th component indicates whether or not the answer of the jth person to the kth question is correct.
arxiv  

Incomplete Presentations in Typical Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy: A Single‐Center, Retrospective Study

open access: yesMuscle &Nerve, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction/Aims Incomplete forms of typical chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) have recently been described, but their frequency and clinical characteristics are uncertain. This study aimed to describe a cohort of patients with incomplete typical CIDP.
Young Gi Min   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of the dimensionality of the Wijma delivery expectancy/experience questionnaire using factor analysis and Rasch analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: Fear of childbirth has negative consequences for a woman's physical and emotional wellbeing. The most commonly used measurement tool for childbirth fear is the Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire (WDEQ-A).
Creedy, D. K.   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

An Evaluation of the Online Social Learning Environment Instrument (OSLEI) Using Rasch Model Analysis

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
One of the questionnaires that will be used to evaluate social learning environments such as Facebook is the Online Social Learning Environment Instrument (OSLEI).
Noor Hidayah Che Lah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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