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Nixon, Judith M. – College & Research Libraries, 2014
In the library science field, there is no professionally accepted tiered list of journals in the United States to guide librarians, as there is in other academic disciplines. This situation creates a challenge for both new and experienced librarians who wish to make a serious contribution to librarianship by publishing articles. This article…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Library Science, Information Science, Methods
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Cziko, Gary A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1984
Some problems associated with the criteria of reproducibility and scalability as they are used in Guttman scalogram analysis to evaluate cumulative, nonparametric scales of dichotomous items are discussed. A computer program is presented which analyzes response patterns elicited by dichotomous scales designed to be cumulative. (Author/DWH)
Descriptors: Scaling, Statistical Analysis, Test Construction, Test Items
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Reynolds, Cecil R. – Psychology in the Schools, 1985
The Draw-a-Design and Draw-a-Child, two subtests of the McCarthy Scales, are the best-normed drawing tests for children aged two and a half to eight and a half years but have no age-corrected deviation scaled scores available for interpretation. Scaled scores for use in interpretation are presented for these tests. (Author/NRB)
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Nonverbal Tests, Norms, Scaling
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Kirkland, John; Bimler, David; Drawneek, Andrew; McKim, Margaret; Scholmerich, Axel – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
Attachment Q-Sort (AQS) is a tool for quantifying observations about toddler/caregiver relationships. Previous studies have applied factor analysis to the full 90 AQS item set to explore the structure underlying them. Here we explore that structure by applying multidimensional scaling (MDS) to judgements of inter-item similarity. AQS items are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Data Analysis, Parent Child Relationship