Reliability and Validity Testing of a Danish Translated Version of Spinal Appearance Questionnaire (SAQ) v 1.1.

Entrepreneurship skills are an individual’s ability to make business in a profitable way. The study focused on to develop a tool to measure the entrepreneurial skill among the agripreneurs by reviewing of literature. Item selection and scoring procedure had been included in this study. Based on the reliability and validity testing, this study finalized the instruments to yielding seven indicators, namely, marketing dimension, psychological magnitude, managerial skill, behavioural skill, technical skill, communication competency, cognitive skill. It is recommended that future researchers apply and thereby extend the developed measure by cross-examining the instruments presented in this study across different entrepreneurs study. The results obtained will be helpful in planning and implementing the capacity development programmes. Among seven indictors and the respective sub indicators, the indicators and sub indicators having above 0.75 relative weightage score had taken for final index. The study found that marketing skill (0.88), psychological magnitude (0.89), behavioural skill (0.79), technical skill (0.83), communication competency (0.93) and cognitive skill (0.89) were the major skill of the agri entrepreneurs, should possess to run their business effectively and efficiently.

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Reliability and validity of the Spinal Appearance Questionnaire (SAQ) and the Trunk Appearance Perception Scale (TAPS)

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research ◽

10.1186/s13018-018-0980-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Meinald T. Thielsch ◽

Mark Wetterkamp ◽

Patrick Boertz ◽

Georg Gosheger ◽

Tobias L. Schulte

Keyword(s):

Reliability And Validity ◽

Spinal Appearance Questionnaire

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Translation and reliability and validity testing of a Japanese version of the Intermittent Self-Catheterization Questionnaire among disposable and reusable catheter users

Neurourology and Urodynamics ◽

10.1002/nau.23111 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 36 (5) ◽

pp. 1356-1362 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mikako Yoshida ◽

Yasuhiko Igawa ◽

Shiho Higashimura ◽

Motofumi Suzuki ◽

Aya Niimi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Reliability And Validity ◽

Japanese Version ◽

Validity Testing

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Reliability and Validity A Quick Review

The Diabetes Educator ◽

10.1177/0145721707308172 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 33 (5) ◽

pp. 775-780 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Karen Fitzner

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

External Validity ◽

Diabetes Education ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Management Training ◽

Self Management ◽

Validity Testing ◽

Education Practice ◽

Rigorous Testing ◽

Diabetes Educators

The purpose of this article is to provide a brief review of reliability and validity testing. These concepts are important to researchers who are choosing techniques and/or developing tools that will be applied and evaluated in diabetes education practice. Several types of reliability and validity testing are defined, and an easy-to-use check sheet is provided for research purposes. Following testing for the basic aspects of reliability and validity such as face and construct validity, a tool may be appropriate for use in practice settings. Those conducting comprehensive outcomes evaluations, however, may desire additional validation such as testing for external validity. Diabetes educators can and should incorporate rigorous testing for these important aspects when conducting assessments of techniques and tools relating to diabetes self-management training.

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Development and validation of an instrument to measure undergraduate chemistry students’ critical thinking skills

Chemistry Education Research and Practice ◽

10.1039/c8rp00130h ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 62-78

Author(s):

Stephen M. Danczak ◽

Christopher D. Thompson ◽

Tina L. Overton

Keyword(s):

Critical Thinking ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Chemistry Education ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Critical Thinking Skills ◽

Internal Reliability ◽

Validity Testing ◽

Chemistry Students ◽

Undergraduate Chemistry

The importance of developing and assessing student critical thinking at university can be seen through its inclusion as a graduate attribute for universities and from research highlighting the value employers, educators and students place on demonstrating critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills are seldom explicitly assessed at universities. Commercial critical thinking assessments, which are often generic in context, are available. However, literature suggests that assessments that use a context relevant to the students more accurately reflect their critical thinking skills. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a chemistry critical thinking test (the Danczak–Overton–Thompson Chemistry Critical Thinking Test or DOT test), set in a chemistry context, and designed to be administered to undergraduate chemistry students at any level of study. Development and evaluation occurred over three versions of the DOT test through a variety of quantitative and qualitative reliability and validity testing phases. The studies suggest that the final version of the DOT test has good internal reliability, strong test–retest reliability, moderate convergent validity relative to a commercially available test and is independent of previous academic achievement and university of study. Criterion validity testing revealed that third year students performed statistically significantly better on the DOT test relative to first year students, and postgraduates and academics performed statistically significantly better than third year students. The statistical and qualitative analysis indicates that the DOT test is a suitable instrument for the chemistry education community to use to measure the development of undergraduate chemistry students’ critical thinking skills.

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Reliability and Validity Testing of the Physical Resilience Measure

The Gerontologist ◽

10.1093/geront/gnr016 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 51 (5) ◽

pp. 643-652 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

B. Resnick ◽

E. Galik ◽

S. Dorsey ◽

A. Scheve ◽

S. Gutkin

Keyword(s):

Reliability And Validity ◽

Validity Testing

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Reliability and Validity of the Outcome Expectations for Exercise Scale-2

Journal of Aging and Physical Activity ◽

10.1123/japa.13.4.382 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 382-394 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Barbara Resnick

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Rasch Analysis ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Outcome Expectations ◽

Retirement Community ◽

Continuing Care ◽

Validity Testing ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

The Relationship

Development of a reliable and valid measure of outcome expectations for exercise for older adults will help establish the relationship between outcome expectations and exercise and facilitate the development of interventions to increase physical activity in older adults. The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of the Outcome Expectations for Exercise-2 Scale (OEE-2), a 13-item measure with two subscales: positive OEE (POEE) and negative OEE (NOEE). The OEE-2 scale was given to 161 residents in a continuing-care retirement community. There was some evidence of validity based on confirmatory factor analysis, Rasch-analysis INFIT and OUTFIT statistics, and convergent validity and test criterion relationships. There was some evidence for reliability of the OEE-2 based on alpha coefficients, person- and item-separation reliability indexes, and R2 values. Based on analyses, suggested revisions are provided for future use of the OEE-2. Although ongoing reliability and validity testing are needed, the OEE-2 scale can be used to identify older adults with low outcome expectations for exercise, and interventions can then be implemented to strengthen these expectations and improve exercise behavior.

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Reliability and Validity Testing of the Self-Efficacy for Functional Activities Scale

Journal of Nursing Measurement ◽

10.1891/1061-3749.7.1.5 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 5-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Barbara Resnick

Keyword(s):

Self Efficacy ◽

Daily Living ◽

Specific Activity ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

The Self ◽

Stair Climbing ◽

Activity Of Daily Living ◽

Validity Testing ◽

Functional Activities ◽

Efficacy Expectations

Self-efficacy expectations for functional activities were defined operationally by having individuals rate their perceived judgment or confidence in their ability to perform each specific activity of daily living (ADL) (bathing, dressing, transferring, ambulating, and stair climbing) at a given point in time. The Self-Efficacy for Functional Activities (SEFA) scale initially included 27 items focusing on efficacy expectations related to performance of each ADL independently, with adaptive equipment, and with the help of another person. After initial pilaf testing the scale was revised to include 9 items which focused on efficacy expectations related to performance of each ADL independently, or with the help of another person. Two additional studies were done and provided some evidence for the reliability and validity of the SEFA when used with older adults.

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