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Morten Pallisgaard Støve; Mathias Kringelholt Kristensen; Jonas Nielsen; Lea Dyhrberg Madsen – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2025
Between limb strength, asymmetry is a leading risk factor for hamstring strain re-injury. However, few accurate testing methodologies are available in clinical settings. This study examined the validity and reliability of eccentric knee flexor torque measured with a novel Nordic Hamstring Device. Twenty-seven healthy participants were assessed in…
Descriptors: Validity, Reliability, Human Body, Foreign Countries
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Poulsen, Mads; Juul, Holger; Elbro, Carsten – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
Different definitions and tests of dyslexia can cause unfairness and make life difficult for people with dyslexia as well as for the professionals. In 2012, the Danish government decided to support the fight against dyslexia. The government issued a public tender for the development of "a standardized, electronically administered test of…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Test Construction
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Chen, Juebei; Hasan, Mahmood Ahmed; Du, Xiangyun; Kolmos, Anette – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This article illustrates a theoretical model and an analytical tool for understanding the influence of diverse elements of the project-based learning (PBL) environment on engineering identity development in students. Supportive elements in three dimensions that contribute to students' identities as future engineers are identified to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Student Projects, Influences
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Kaj Sparle Christensen; Ole Jakob Storebø; Bo Bach – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objective: This study examines the validity of the ASRS-5 as a new screening tool for ADHD and evaluates its proposed screening cut-off in a general population context. Method: A nationally representative sample of 2,002 individuals aged 18 to 80 years was surveyed using the ASRS-5, with complete data obtained from 714 participants. Psychometric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Psychometrics, Item Analysis
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Nielsen, Tine; Friderichsen, Ida Sophie; Hartkopf, Bjarke Tarpgaard – Frontline Learning Research, 2019
Self-efficacy is associated with both academic performance and attrition in higher education. Whether it is possible to measure students' academic self-efficacy after admission and prior to commencing higher education (i.e. pre-academic self-efficacy) in a valid and reliable way has hardly been studied. Aims: 1) to evaluate the construct validity…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Higher Education, College Admission
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Aarkrog, Vibe; Wahlgren, Bjarne – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
The article deals about the results of a study of school-based Assessment of Prior Learning of adults who have enrolled as students in a VET college in order to qualify for occupations as skilled workers. Based on examples of VET teachers' methods for assessing the students' prior learning in the programs for gastronomes, respectively child care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Adult Vocational Education, Student Evaluation
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Elklit, Ask; Nielsen, Louise Hjort; Lasgaard, Mathias; Duch, Christina – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2013
Research on childhood posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is sparse. This is partly due to the limited availability of empirically validated measures for children who are insecure readers. The present study examined the reliability and validity of a cartoon-based measure of PTSD symptoms in children exposed to a disaster. Cartoons were generated…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychometrics, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Clausen, Aksel Skovgaard – Qualitative Report, 2012
In this paper, I argue--with an example--that under certain conditions replacement of audio transcriptions with a combination of simultaneously taken and jointly produced notes can be done without affecting reliability, validity, and transparency. These conditions are: (1) professional or otherwise relatively "strong" interviewees…
Descriptors: Interviews, Notetaking, Qualitative Research, Hermeneutics
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Sedgwick, Carole – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
From June to November 2003 an exploratory survey was made of the assessment of written English in a small sample of English language degrees in Europe. All programmes had similar components, the study of English language and literature, cultural or area studies, and English language development. Some involved the study of another language.…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), English