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Is Construct Validation Valid? [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2016 What makes a measure of well-being valid? The dominant approach today, construct validation, uses psychometrics to ensure that questionnaires behave in accordance with background knowledge. Our first claim is interpretive—construct validation obeys a coherentist logic that seeks to balance diverse sources of evidence about the construct in question ...
Alexandrova, A, Haybron, DM
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Validated or Not Validated? That Is the Question [PDF]
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2014 deviation estimates were … acceptable as they are
John M S, Bartlett +2 more
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Are cluster validity measures (in) valid?
Information Sciences, 2021 Internal cluster validity measures (such as the Calinski-Harabasz, Dunn, or Davies-Bouldin indices) are frequently used for selecting the appropriate number of partitions a dataset should be split into. In this paper we consider what happens if we treat such indices as objective functions in unsupervised learning activities.
Marek Gagolewski +2 more
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Changing Swabs: To Validate or Not To Validate? [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2013 A widely perceived requirement for validation of all new specimen collection swabs by the laboratory appears to be the result of misinformation. Neither the College of American Pathologists (CAP) nor regulations through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) address specifically ...
J Michael, Miller +2 more
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Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2023 The way in which validity has been conceptualized has changed throughout the years. The focus in validation studies shifted from evaluating distinct components of validity to developing a comprehensive argument for the use and interpretations of test scores.
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Validity and Reliability of Turkish Version of Bristol COPD Knowledge Questionnaire (BCKQTR)/
Sağlık Akademisi Kastamonu, 2021 Giriş: KOAH hastaları için bilgi düzeyi değerlendirme formları incelendiğinde, Bristol KOAH Bilgi Düzeyi Soru Formu’nun Türkçeye uyarlanması ve psikometrik çalışmaların yapılması, KOAH hastalarının eğitiminde önemli bir gereksinimi karşılayacağı ...
Orhan Çakır +3 more
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Beyond the Pragmatic Definition? The Right to Non-discrimination of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Coercive Interventions [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2020 According to a longstanding definition of non-discrimination, differential treatment does not constitute discrimination if the purpose or effect of the differential treatment is to achieve a legitimate aim and if the differential treatment can be ...
Sándor Gurbai
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Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2023 Background: This study introduced the Perinatal Grief Intensity Scale (PGIS) and applied it to assess the reliability and validity of perinatal loss in Chinese mothers.
Jianping Xu, Shuiqin Gu, Shuihong Su
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A factor analysis of an instrument for measuring physical abuse experience of students at school
REID (Research and Evaluation in Education), 2018 Violence in schools is increasingly reported by the mass media. It indicates that its prevalence is escalating. An instrument which has a proper psychometric property is needed to investigate the phenomenon.
Safrudin Amin +2 more
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Maddenin Yapısı ve Özellikleri Konusunda Başarı Testi Geliştirme: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması
Anadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi, 2023 Bu çalışmanın temel amacı yedinci sınıf “Maddenin Yapısı ve Özellikleri” konusunda geçerli ve güvenilir bir başarı testi geliştirmektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda konu ile ilgili kazanımlara uygun, alanyazına dayalı 23 çoktan seçmeli sorudan oluşan başarı ...
Oktay Bektas +2 more
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