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CASPer, an Online Pre-Interview Screen for Personal/Professional Characteristics: Prediction of National Licensure Scores
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Dore, Kelly L.; Reiter, Harold I.; Kreuger, Sharyn; Norman, Geoffrey R. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Typically, only a minority of applicants to health professional training are invited to interview. However, pre-interview measures of cognitive skills predict for national licensure scores (Gauer et al. in "Med Educ Online" 21 2016) and subsequently licensure scores predict for performance in practice (Tamblyn et al. in "JAMA"…
Descriptors: Interviews, Thinking Skills, Certification, Predictor Variables
Preliminary Evaluation of the Childhood Experiences of Violence Questionnaire Short Form
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Tanaka, Masako; Wekerle, Christine; Leung, Eman; Waechter, Randall; Gonzalez, Andrea; Jamieson, Ellen; MacMillan, Harriet L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Despite advances in child maltreatment research, accurate measurement of exposure remains a key issue. In this study, we evaluated a short form (CEVQ-SF) of the Childhood Experiences of Violence Questionnaire (CEVQ) in a sample of adolescents involved with child protection services in an urban city in Ontario, Canada. Focusing on the two most…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity
A Scenario-Based Dieting Self-Efficacy Scale: The DIET-SE
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Stich, Christine; Knauper, Barbel; Tint, Ami – Assessment, 2009
The article discusses a scenario-based dieting self-efficacy scale, the DIET-SE, developed from dieter's inventory of eating temptations (DIET). The DIET-SE consists of items that describe scenarios of eating temptations for a range of dieting situations, including high-caloric food temptations. Four studies assessed the psychometric properties of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Test Validity, Predictive Validity, Dietetics
The Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Student Attitudes Towards Work.
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Maguire, Thomas O.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
A 75-item instrument was developed to assess high school students' attitudes toward work. Fifteen scales were derived. Analysis of responses from 1,035 students showed high reliabilities. Group differences based on age, sex, previous work experiences, and vocational ambitions lent support to the validity of the scales. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Foreign Countries, Predictive Validity, Secondary Education
The Measurement of Happiness: Development of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH).
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Kozma, Albert; Stones, M.J. – Journal of Gerontology, 1980
The new scale was a better predictor of "avowed happiness" in both validation and cross-validation samples than the existing scales used for comparison. Moreover, the new scale's test-retest reliability was within an acceptable range for this type of scale. (Author)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Happiness, Morale, Older Adults
Psychometric Characteristics of the Test of Syntactic Abilities Screening Test.
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Rogers, W. Todd; Clarke, B. R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1981
Reliability, factorial complexity, and predictive validity of the Test of Syntactic Abilities Screening Test were determined from the responses of mildly hearing impaired, severely hearing impaired, and profoundly deaf students. Results showed that the test was unifactorial. Use of the total score to discriminate among students is justified.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries