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Using Item Response Theory to Understand the Effects of Scale Contextualization: An Illustration Using Decision Making Style Scales
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Voss, Nathaniel M.; Chlevin-Thiele, Cassandra; Lake, Christopher J.; Warren, Chi-Leigh – International Journal of Testing, 2023
The goal of this study was to extend research on scale contextualization (i.e., frame-of-reference effect) to the decision making styles construct, compare the effects of contextualization across three unique decision style scales, and examine the consequences of scale contextualization within an item response theory framework. Based on a mixed…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, College Students
Predictive Validity of a House-Officer Selection Process at One Medical School.
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Friedman, Charles P.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
A study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine evaluated the predictive value of the rank list generated in evaluating applicants for a surgery residency. Rough rankings computed directly from ratings of applicants were found to be more predictive of first year residents' performance than faculty's final rankings…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students
Situational Leadership: Conscious Criteria Applied in Educational Leaders' Decisions.
McMurray, Alan R.; Bentley, Ernest L., Jr. – 1987
To test a situational leadership model, this study sought to determine (1) whether, among a population of educational administrators in East Tennessee, individuals possessing high flexibility/high effectiveness leadership characteristics can be identified and (2) whether those leaders consciously apply Hersey and Blanchard's concept of maturity…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Age Differences, Decision Making, Educational Administration