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Rubin, Allen; Parrish, Danielle E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
Objective: This report describes the development and preliminary findings regarding the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of a scale that has been developed to assess practitioners' perceived familiarity with, attitudes about, and implementation of the phases of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: After a panel of national…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Content Validity, Continuing Education, Psychometrics
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Maguire, Phil; Devereux, Barry; Costello, Fintan; Cater, Arthur – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
The competition among relations in nominals (CARIN) theory of conceptual combination (C. L. Gagne & E. J. Shoben, 1997) proposes that people interpret nominal compounds by selecting a relation from a pool of competing alternatives and that relation availability is influenced by the frequency with which relations have been previously associated…
Descriptors: Competition, Program Validation, Item Analysis, Human Relations
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Moore, David S.; Cocas, Laura A. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Two studies of 5-month-old infants explored whether a phenomenon reported by K. Wynn (1992) reflects a familiarity preference instead of a mathematical competence. Experiment 1 was a conceptual replication of Wynn's study. When data were analyzed with the relatively liberal statistical approach used by Wynn, the original phenomenon was replicated.…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Familiarity, Infants, Mathematical Aptitude
Ainley, John; Fraillon, Julian; Freeman, Chris – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2007
This report is based on the assessment of ICT (information and communication technology) literacy conducted in October 2005. It describes the development of a computer-based tool for assessing ICT literacy among school students and the application of that tool with a nationally representative sample of approximately 7,400 students from Years 6 and…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Computer Software, Information Technology, Information Sources