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Annabel L. Davies; A. E. Ades; Julian P. T. Higgins – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
Quantitative evidence synthesis methods aim to combine data from multiple medical trials to infer relative effects of different interventions. A challenge arises when trials report continuous outcomes on different measurement scales. To include all evidence in one coherent analysis, we require methods to "map" the outcomes onto a single…
Descriptors: Children, Body Composition, Measurement Techniques, Sampling
Green, Kathy E.; Kluever, Raymond C. – 1991
Item components that might contribute to the difficulty of items on the Raven Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM) and the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) were studied. Subjects providing responses to CPM items were 269 children aged 2 years 9 months to 11 years 8 months, most of whom were referred for testing as potentially gifted. A second…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level
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