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Annual Research Review: A Meta-Analysis of the Worldwide Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents
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Polanczyk, Guilherme V.; Salum, Giovanni A.; Sugaya, Luisa S.; Caye, Arthur; Rohde, Luis A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: The literature on the prevalence of mental disorders affecting children and adolescents has expanded significantly over the last three decades around the world. Despite the field having matured significantly, there has been no meta-analysis to calculate a worldwide-pooled prevalence and to empirically assess the sources of…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Mental Disorders, Children, Adolescents
Citation Counts and the Research Assessment Exercise, Part VI: Unit of Assessment 67 (Music)
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Oppenheim, Charles; Summers, Mark A. C. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: This study aimed to explore research assessment within the field of music and, specifically, to investigate whether citation counting could be used to replace or inform the peer review system currently in use in the UK. Method: A citation analysis of academics submitted for peer review in Unit of Assessment 67 in the 2001 Research…
Descriptors: Music, Periodicals, Correlation, Humanities
Performing Multivariate Group Comparisons Following a Statistically Significant MANOVA.
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Enders, Craig K. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2003
This article illustrates 2 follow-up procedures that can be used to examine multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) group differences: the univariate analysis of a linear composite variable and multivariate contrasts. A heuristic data set is used to demonstrate the procedures, and it is shown that the follow-up methods will not always yield…
Descriptors: Counseling, Evaluation Methods, Multivariate Analysis, Research Design
Reliability and Validity of the SCL-90-R with Hispanic College Students
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Martinez, Sandra; Stillerman, Lee; Waldo, Michael – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2005
Reliability and validity of the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised (SCL-90-R) was investigated to determine if this instrument is appropriate for use with Hispanic college students. The sample (28 males, 177 females) consisted of 101 participants who identified as Anglo and 104 who identified as Hispanic (6 did not identify their ethnicity).…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Multivariate Analysis, College Students
Basic Considerations in the Assessment of Quality of Life.
Flanagan, John C. – 1980
Basic considerations in the assessment of an individual's quality of life include: (1) the nature of the scales used for reporting; (2) the domains included in the overall assessment and their relative importance to the individual; (3) the time frame of the reporting period as either stated or implied; (4) the extent to which the personal report…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Critical Incidents Method, Evaluation Methods, Individual Needs
The Effect of Electronic Evaluation Tools on Types and Magnitudes of Learning.
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Daningburg, Suzanne; Schmid, Richard F. – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1994
Describes a study that investigated the effects of use and nonuse of an electronic formative evaluation tool, the Program Evaluation Analysis Computer system, on the cognitive, affective, and evaluative aspects of college students' perceptions of an educational television program emphasizing cognitive learning. Electronic measurement methodologies…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Computer Software