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Measuring dynamic bipolarity in positive and negative activation.

Assessment

Vautier S, Raufaste E.
PMID: 12675383
Assessment. 2003 Mar;10(1):49-55. doi: 10.1177/1073191102250338.

The dynamic bipolarity of the positive and negative affective activation, measured with the PANAS scales, was studied using a pre-post design with an intervening experiment. The correlations between (a) the initial positive and negative constructs and (b) the respective...

Psychometric measures of boredom: a review of the literature.

The Journal of psychology

Vodanovich SJ.
PMID: 14992349
J Psychol. 2003 Nov;137(6):569-95. doi: 10.1080/00223980309600636.

This research presents a review of the psychometric measures on boredom that have been developed over the past 25 years. Specifically, the author examined the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS; R. Farmer & N. D. Sundberg, 1986), the job boredom...

OSCE! Variations on a theme by Harden.

Medical education

Hodges B.
PMID: 14984124
Med Educ. 2003 Dec;37(12):1134-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2003.01717.x.

BACKGROUND: In 1979, Harden described the first objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). Harden's OSCE dramatically changed the assessment of professional competence because it used actors and choreographed scenarios to evaluate the performance of professional behaviours.ANALYSIS: Because of the intense...

A review of physical activity measures used among US Latinos: guidelines for developing culturally appropriate measures.

Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine

Martinez SM, Ainsworth BE, Elder JP.
PMID: 18855091
Ann Behav Med. 2008 Oct;36(2):195-207. doi: 10.1007/s12160-008-9063-6. Epub 2008 Oct 15.

BACKGROUND: As the US population continues to grow and diversify, there is a need for progressive physical activity measurement and cross-cultural research. Studies suggest that US Latinos are among the most sedentary of ethnic groups compared to others; however,...

Ethics and evaluating educational programmes.

Medical teacher

Shaw NJ.
PMID: 17538838
Med Teach. 2007 Feb;29(1):66; author reply 66. doi: 10.1080/01421590601085870.

No abstract available.

A review and application of social scientific measures of religiosity and spirituality: assessing a missing component in health communication research.

Health communication

Egbert N, Mickley J, Coeling H.
PMID: 14979849
Health Commun. 2004;16(1):7-27. doi: 10.1207/S15327027HC1601_2.

Social and behavioral scientists in fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, nursing, and medicine have been investigating the relation between religious or spiritual variables and health outcomes for several decades. This article reviews a sample of the major empirical...

Computerized adaptive testing: a mixture item selection approach for constrained situations.

The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology

Leung CK, Chang HH, Hau KT.
PMID: 16293199
Br J Math Stat Psychol. 2005 Nov;58:239-57. doi: 10.1348/000711005X62945.

In computerized adaptive testing (CAT), traditionally the most discriminating items are selected to provide the maximum information so as to attain the highest efficiency in trait (theta) estimation. The maximum information (MI) approach typically results in unbalanced item exposure...

Between-group differences and taxometrics.

Psychological reports

Hidegkuti I, De Boeck P.
PMID: 17451029
Psychol Rep. 2007 Feb;100(1):211-30. doi: 10.2466/pr0.100.1.211-230.

In psychological research it can be of interest to differentiate between the categorical (taxonic) vs dimensional (nontaxonic) nature of phenomena, for example in the field of psychopathology. For categorical (taxonic) structures a further differentiation is possible: between categorical structures...

Reducible or irreducible? Mathematical reasoning and the ontological method.

Journal of applied measurement

Fisher WP.
PMID: 20351447
J Appl Meas. 2010;11(1):38-59.

Science is often described as nothing but the practice of measurement. This perspective follows from longstanding respect for the roles mathematics and quantification have played as media through which alternative hypotheses are evaluated and experience becomes better managed. Many...

Psychometric tools for measuring outcomes of diabetes education; a critique of Eigenmann et al.'s assessment of suitability.

Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association

Bradley C.
PMID: 19719722
Diabet Med. 2009 Sep;26(9):952-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2009.02793.x.

No abstract available.

Editorial: introduction to the article on "dual scaling".

Journal of personality assessment

Streiner DL.
PMID: 16171421
J Pers Assess. 2005 Oct;85(2):207-8. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8502_13.

No abstract available.

Improving measurement in health education and health behavior research using item response modeling: comparison with the classical test theory approach.

Health education research

Wilson M, Allen DD, Li JC.
PMID: 16880221
Health Educ Res. 2006 Dec;21:i19-32. doi: 10.1093/her/cyl053. Epub 2006 Jul 31.

This paper compares the approach and resultant outcomes of item response models (IRMs) and classical test theory (CTT). First, it reviews basic ideas of CTT, and compares them to the ideas about using IRMs introduced in an earlier paper....

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