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Peer reviewedCaruso, Grace-Ann L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
Results from a pilot group of 22 parents of preschoolers and 96 parents of toddlers suggest that 3 developed measures of the supportive relationship between parents and child caregivers--the Caregiver Support Appraisal Scale-V, the Caregiver Support Appraisal Scale-P, and the Caregiver Supportive Behavior Scale--are valid and reliable measures.…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedWolf, Fredric M.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1991
Five studies involving medical students over a four-year period were conducted to examine the reliability and validity of the Medical Helping Relationship Inventory (MHRI)--an instrument for evaluating medical communication skills. Evidence of the MHRI's construct validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comparative Testing, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity
Download full textBabcock, Judith L.; And Others – 1992
This study used multiple methods to assess basic community needs and attributes of community atmosphere (cohesion, religious involvement, and recreational activities) in two psychometric studies. Part 1 revised self-report community assessment measures, developed multi-item scales for each construct, and tested reliabilities and factor structures…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Comparative Testing
Page, Ronald C.; De Puga, Ignacio Suarez – 1992
This paper addresses the cross-cultural development and use of the Behavior Description Index (BDI). The development of culturally-transportable scales; cross-cultural comparisons of results for 12 Spanish, 15 Hungarian, 15 Indonesian, and U.S. managers; and the transportability of competencies as constructs are considered. A competency is an…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Adults, Comparative Testing, Competence
Pike, Gary R. – 1989
The College Outcome Measures Program (COMP) and the Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) examinations were evaluated as measures of the effectiveness of the general education program of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). The criteria used to evaluate these examinations focused on their construct validity. The data were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Seniors, Comparative Testing
Yachimowicz, David J.; And Others – 1990
The psychometric properties of a paper-and-pencil instrument for assessing individual differences in cerebral dominance are explored. The instrument, Your Style of Learning and Thinking (SOLAT), contains 50 multiple-choice questions. The study subjects consisted of three groups: 235 undergraduate and graduate students, 124 undergraduate and…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, College Students, Comparative Testing
Inderbitzen, Heidi M.; Garbin, Calvin P. – 1992
In an attempt to determine the subscale structures most useful for identifying adolescents with social skill deficits, this study investigated the factor structure of the Teenage Inventory of Social Skills (TISS) and its relationship to two measures of adolescent social competence. Two measures were completed by 1,142 ninth-grade students (577…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity, Criterion Referenced Tests
Tombokan-Runtukahu, Juliana; Nitko, Anthony J. – 1991
Whether the construct of adaptive behavior, which has been developed and operationalized in western countries, could be successfully operationalized in a non-western country, Indonesia, was studied. Focus was on delineating procedures for cross-cultural adaptation and operationalization of the construct; creating an operationalization of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity
Veccia, Ellen M.; Schroeder, David H. – 1990
As a measure of musical aptitude, a new 90-item Pitch Discrimination Test was developed, and its internal structure was examined. Each of the three sections of the test measures an individual's aptitude for pitch discrimination in a different frequency range using square-wave tones generated by a personal computer. A total of 1,303 examinees,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Auditory Discrimination
Murchan, Damian P. – 1989
The reliability, content validity, and construct validity were compared for two test formats in a public examination used to assess a secondary school geography course. The 11-item geography portion of the Intermediate Certificate Examination (essay examination) was administered in June 1987 to 400 secondary school students in Ireland who also…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity, Content Validity
