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The validity of validation: A practical assessment

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2020
AbstractObjective:To assess the time to achieve reliable reporting of electronic health record data compared with manual reporting during validation.Design:Secondary analysis of aggregate data for number of patients present, number of patients with a central venous catheter, and number of patients with an indwelling urinary catheter during validation ...
Eric C. Stone, Vickie Miller, Heidi J. Shedenhelm, Walter C. Hellinger, John C. O’Horo   +4 more
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Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988
In recent studies of the structure of affect, positive and negative affect have consistently emerged as two dominant and relatively independent dimensions.
D. Watson, L. Clark, A. Tellegen
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Ecological Validity and “Ecological Validity”

Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021
Egon Brunswik coined the term ecological validity to refer to the correlation between perceptual cues and the states and traits of a stimulus. Martin Orne adapted the term to refer to the generalization of experimental findings to the real world outside the laboratory. Both are legitimate uses of the term because the ecological validity of the cues in
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Development and validation of a genetic algorithm for flexible docking.

Journal of Molecular Biology, 1997
Prediction of small molecule binding modes to macromolecules of known three-dimensional structure is a problem of paramount importance in rational drug design (the "docking" problem).
G. Jones, P. Willett, R. Glen, Andrew R. Leach, Robin Taylor   +4 more
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The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure.

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1993
PURPOSE We developed and validated a brief, yet sensitive, 33-item general cancer quality-of-life (QL) measure for evaluating patients receiving cancer treatment, called the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) scale.
D. Cella, D. Tulsky, G. Gray, B. Sarafian, E. Linn, A. Bonomi, M. Silberman, S. Yellen, P. Winicour, J. Brannon   +9 more
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Are Validated Questionnaires Valid?

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, 2006
To The Reader: The article “Clinical Outcome at a Minimum of Five Years After Reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament” (2005;87:1673-9), by Spindler …
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The Concept of Validity.

Psychological Review, 2004
This article advances a simple conception of test validity: A test is valid for measuring an attribute if (a) the attribute exists and (b) variations in the attribute causally produce variation in the measurement outcomes. This conception is shown to diverge from current validity theory in several respects.
Jaap van Heerden, Gideon J. Mellenbergh, Denny Borsboom   +2 more
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On the dimensionality of organizational justice: a construct validation of a measure.

Journal of Applied Psychology, 2001
This study explores the dimensionality of organizational justice and provides evidence of construct validity for a new justice measure. Items for this measure were generated by strictly following the seminal works in the justice literature.
J. Colquitt
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PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT IN THE WORKPLACE: DIMENSIONS, MEASUREMENT, AND VALIDATION

, 1995
This research begins to develop and validate a multidimensional measure of psychological empowerment in the workplace. Second-order confirmatory factor analyses were conducted with two complementary samples to demonstrate the convergent and discriminant ...
G. Spreitzer
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A Consumer Values Orientation for Materialism and Its Measurement: Scale Development and Validation

, 1992
This article reviews the construct and measurement of materialism and concludes that materialism is appropriately conceptualized as a consumer value. The development of a values-oriented materialism scale with three components--acquisition centrality ...
Marsha L. Richins, S. Dawson
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