Psychometric analyses supporting instructional improvement and effectiveness by establishing reliability, validity, and forecasts of statewide test performance, evaluating growth (Categorical Growth Analysis) and measuring progress by placing test scores on a common scale.
Not exact matches
Results: Reliability and validity of the scale and its four subscales, such as «stop unpleasant emotions and thoughts» (a = 0.92) «used problem - focused coping» (a = 0.71), Self - efficacy on diabetes problem solving (a = 0.74) and «get
support from friends and family» (a = 0.67) were approved explicitly by a
psychometric analysis; these show that the scale was slightly valid and reliable on the study setting.
Nevertheless, in spite of the positive results
supporting online assessment, the study of
psychometric properties of online tests has frequent methodological problems (lack of random assignment or differing demographic characteristics to ensure sample equivalence), which make the adequate reliability or equivalence
analysis difficult [13].