The challenge of measuring epistemic beliefs: an analysis of three...

The Journal of Experimental Education;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT. Epistemic beliefs are notoriously difficult to...measures of domain-general epistemic beliefs to draw conclusions about the...Schommer, 1990; N = 935); the Epistemic Beliefs Inventory (EBI; G. Schraw...

Epistemic beliefs and moral reasoning.

The Journal of Psychology;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......personal influence is each individual's epistemic beliefs. Chandler, Boyes, and Ball (1990...related to changes in adolescents' epistemic beliefs. Benack and Basseches (1989) came...Rowland, and Boyes (1991) reported that epistemic beliefs were related to moral reasoning as...

Psychometric properties of 2 simplified 3-level balance scales used for...

Physical Therapy;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......study, Mao et al (3) compared the psychometric properties of these 2 scales in 112 patients...measures would influence their psychometric properties remains unknown. Some people believe...eg, balance scale) has better psychometric properties than a 3-level measure, (5) although...

Pre-service teachers' beliefs about knowledge, mathematics, and...

School Science and Mathematics;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......must consider preservice teachers' epistemic beliefs (Cady, Meier, & Lubinski, 2006a...this study, preservice teachers' epistemic beliefs were identified, their beliefs about...1990). The preservice teachers' epistemic beliefs (assumptions about the nature, limits...

Screening for Mental Health Problems Among Patients With Substance Use...

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......calculated. Results: Overall, the psychometric properties identified with the PDSQ in patients...studies to provide data on its psychometric properties and inform the choice of cut-off...illnesses may also affect the psychometric properties of a screening tool.7 More specifically...

Nonequivalence of on-line and paper-and-pencil psychological tests: The...

Behavior Research Methods;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......psychological tests can have satisfactory psychometric properties and can measure the same constructs...validation. Without examination of its psychometric properties, one cannot be sure that a test...measure) may impact upon a measure's psychometric properties and, ultimately, its ...

Psychometric Properties of the French and English Versions of the Social...

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......with social anxiety. To date, the psychometric properties of this English-language measure...phobia. This study examined the psychometric properties of the English SPIN and a newly...French and English; however, the psychometric properties of the fear, avoidance, and physiology...

Assessing the validity and reliability of well-being and stress in family...

Social Work Research;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Relatively little is known about the psychometric properties of measures that assess the constructs...scale. Key words: caregivers; psychometric properties; stress; structural equation modeling...limitations when assessing measures' psychometric properties. The capacity to estimate a ...

Assessing stability and change of psychometric properties of multi-item...

The Journal of Psychology;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......for use on the computer, and the psychometric properties of the transferred test must be...types of stability and change of psychometric properties of multi-item concepts; (b) focus...structural invariance. Stability of Psychometric Properties of a Concept: Types of Change...

Development of a revised version of the Women's Health Questionnaire

Climacteric;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......current research was to examine the psychometric properties of the WHQ across linguistic versions...six domains. The cross-sectional psychometric properties of the 23-item WHQ were good and...current research was to examine the psychometric properties of the WHQ across linguistic ...

Cross-Cultural Equivalence and Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese...

Journal of Nursing Measurement;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......determine semantic equivalency and psychometric properties of the Depressive Cognition Scale...the DCS semantic equivalency and psychometric properties. A convenience sample of 40 bilingual...equivalency; semantic equivalency; psychometric properties; back-translation; Depressive...

Psychometric properties of the Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant...

Social Work Research;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......described in this article tested the psychometric properties of the Intergenerational Congruence...ameliorate the conflict. ICIF-PS's psychometric properties were tested in a sample of 787...intergenerational-intercultural congruence with good psychometric properties. Key words: ...

Factor Analysis of the Revised Piper Fatigue Scale in a Caregiver Sample

Journal of Nursing Measurement;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......samples with physical illness. Its psychometric properties in nonclinical samples are unknown...this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the R-PFS in a sample of caregivers...attention has been given to the psychometric properties of fatigue measures in caregiver...

Evaluating psychometric properties of a clinical and a self-report blind...

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Abstract- This study assessed the psychometric properties and evaluated the compatibility...at admission and discharge. The psychometric properties of the two instruments and their...INTRODUCTION This study assessed the psychometric properties of two blind rehabilitation outcome...

Stability in a measure of children's health locus and control.

Journal of School Health;  April 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ......precipitated continued examination of the psychometric properties of scales measuring this concept...importance of verifying their psychometric properties has added significance. The Children...previous studies, was that the psychometric properties of CHLC were unstable, and that...