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Selecting for Creativity and Innovation Potential: Implications for Practice in Healthcare Education
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Patterson, Fiona; Zibarras, Lara Dawn – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
The ability to innovate is an important requirement in many organisations. Despite this pressing need, few selection systems in healthcare focus on identifying the potential for creativity and innovation and so this area has been vastly under-researched. As a first step towards understanding how we might select for creativity and innovation, this…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Foreign Countries, Physicians
Is the Narcissistic Personality Inventory Still Relevant? A Test of Independent Grandiosity and Entitlement Scales in the Assessment of Narcissism
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Miller, Joshua D.; Price, Joanna; Campbell, W. Keith – Assessment, 2012
Some scholars have called for the replacement of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) with more narrow scales measuring grandiosity and entitlement instead. In the current study, the authors examined the relations among the NPI and measures of grandiosity and entitlement, as well as in relation to a measure of the Five-Factor Model (FFM).…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Correlation, Validity
Reliability and Validity of an Attribute-Based Autobiographical Sketch Medical School Admission Tool, the Mini-Curriculum Vitae: Implications for Admission Decision Making
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Trinh, Kien – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A curriculum vitae (CV) is probably the most important first piece of information for an employer to evaluate for job applications (Cole et al. 2007). The CV may lead to an interview for the position advertised. Therefore, writing a good CV is extremely essential and it is a valuable life skill to have. However, there have been debates as to the…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, College Admission, Resumes (Personal), Reliability
An Investigation of the Factor Structure and Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Five-Factor Model Rating Form
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Samuel, Douglas B.; Mullins-Sweatt, Stephanie N.; Widiger, Thomas A. – Assessment, 2013
The Five-Factor Model Rating Form (FFMRF) is a one-page measure designed to provide an efficient assessment of the higher order domains of the Five Factor Model (FFM) as well as the more specific, lower order facets proposed by McCrae and Costa. Although previous research has suggested that the FFMRF's assessment of the lower order facets converge…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Personality Measures, Test Validity, Structural Equation Models
Exploring Teachers' Inquiry-Based Attitude
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Meijer, Marie-Jeanne; Geijsel, Femke; Kuijpers, Marinka; Boei, Fer; Vrieling, Emmy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Having a well-founded insight into the characteristics of teachers inquiry-based attitude (IA) supports operationalising IA as a learning goal in teacher education (TE). The aim of this study is to refine the notion of IA from an ill-defined global concept into something with reliable and valid characteristics. To do so, data were gathered on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inquiry, Cohort Analysis
A Brief Assessment of the Interpersonal Circumplex: The IPIP-IPC
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Markey, Patrick M.; Markey, Charlotte N. – Assessment, 2009
Three studies are presented that demonstrate the psychometric properties and initial validation of the International Personality Item Pool-Interpersonal Circumplex (IPIP-IPC). The IPIP-IPC is a brief 32-item assessment of the interpersonal cirucmplex designed to be used when time is limited or when participants have difficulty understanding the…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Psychometrics, Validity, Social Behavior