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Steckelberg, Anke; Hulfenhaus, Christian; Kasper, Jurgen; Rost, Jurgen; Muhlhauser, Ingrid – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
Consumers' autonomy regarding health increasingly requires competences to critically appraise health information. Critical health literacy refers to the concept of evidence-based medicine. Instruments to measure these competences in curriculum evaluation and surveys are lacking. We aimed to develop and validate an instrument to measure critical…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, College Students, Health, Competence
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Mulero-Portela, Ana L.; Colon-Santaella, Carmen L.; Cruz-Gomez, Cynthia – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2009
The purpose of this study was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Disability of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) questionnaire to Spanish for Puerto Rico. Five steps were followed for the cross-cultural adaptation: forward translations into Spanish for Puerto Rico, synthesis of the translations, back translations into English, revision by…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Human Body, Construct Validity, Test Validity
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Dunne, Michael P.; Zolotor, Adam J.; Runyan, Desmond K.; Andreva-Miller, Inna; Choo, Wan Yuen; Dunne, Simon K.; Gerbaka, Bernard; Isaeva, Oksana; Jain, Dipty; Kasim, Mohd Sham; Macfarlane, Bonnie; Mamyrova, Nurgul; Ramirez, Clemencia; Volkova, Elena; Youssef, Randa – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objectives: To gain consensus among an ethnically and linguistically diverse group of international child protection experts on the structure and content of a new survey tool for retrospective measurement of child abuse, and to determine the performance of the instrument through an international field trial with young adults. Methods: The…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Child Abuse, Incidence, Focus Groups
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Trigg, Richard; Skevington, Suzanne M.; Jones, Roy W. – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: The study aim was to develop a measure of self-reported quality of life (QoL) for people with mild to moderate dementia based on their views--the Bath Assessment of Subjective Quality of Life in Dementia (BASQID). Design and Methods: We developed the measure through multiple stages. Two field tests of the measure (ns = 60 and 150)…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Quality of Life, Field Tests, Questionnaires
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Hui, Stanley Sai-chuen; Cheung, Peggy Pui-yee – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2004
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the criterion-related validity of a 3-min step test using 3 stepping cadences. Chinese children (N = 50; age = 8.92 plus or minus 1.64 years) performed three 3-min bouts of a bench stepping exercise on a 12-in.-high (30.5 cm) bench. Stepping cadences for the 3 step tests were 22, 26, and 30 steps per…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Physical Fitness, Foreign Countries, Field Tests
Yepes-Baraya, Mario – 1995
This paper describes the task analysis of performance-based science tasks that were designed for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment, now postponed until 1996, and field tested in 1993. A brief description of the science performance tasks is followed by a description of the task analyses performed and a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Tests
Zammuto, Raymond F.; And Others – 1985
The purpose of this report is to describe the development and field testing of a two-year college version of the National Center for Higher Education Management System's (NCHEMS) Institutional Performance Survey (IPS), an instrument designed to provide information on the perceptions of various groups about the overall functioning and performance…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Employee Attitudes, Evaluation Criteria
Dayton, Charles W.; Jung, Steven M. – 1980
A project undertaken to field test the Institutional Report Form (IRF), a tool designed to measure the potential for student consumer abuse in postsecondary educational institutions, is described. The IRF was designed by the American Institutes for Research for use by state licensing agencies, and the field test was intended as a federal technical…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Administrative Policy, Disclosure
Stecher, Brian M.; Wood, Alice C.; Gilbert, Mary Lou; Borko, Hilda; Kuffner, Karin L.; Arnold, Suzanne C.; Dorman, Elizabeth H. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2005
The purpose of this research is to determine whether we can use classroom artifacts as the basis for making valid judgments about the presence of reform-oriented teaching practices in middle-school mathematics classes. Our approach compares ratings based on collections of artifacts assembled by teachers according to our directions (the "Scoop…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Observation, Field Tests, Middle School Teachers