Sentences with phrase «assessment validation studies»

To date these remain the only large - scale driver risk assessment validation studies of their kind — conducted by applied university - level research experts with up to 26,000 participants.

Not exact matches

And we have done many validation studies where we compared our diet assessments to biochemical measures, say of, tansfat in the fat tissue of a person or the level of beta - carotene in the blood, and we found pretty good correlations — not perfect but they are pretty good — and that means that we are able to pick up meaningful differences in people, among people that we can tell someone who is eating a large amount of transfat from a person eating low amount of transfat.

Dietary validation studies have indicated that the frequency of coffee consumption reported on a food frequency questionnaire is highly reproducible and agrees well with assessments using diet records (15).

In addition, researchers have begun a preliminary validation study of the 5D ™ instructional leadership proficiency assessment administered by the University of Washington.

In the validation study (Olson, Gorall & Tiesel, 2007), scale reliabilities were reported to be acceptable for research purposes and applicable for clinical purposes only if combined with other methods of assessment, ranging from alpha =.77 to alpha =.89 (Olson et al., 2007).

The main study objectives were to describe and / or evaluate parent - child interactions through micro-interest or validation of synchrony assessment tools; to compare the quality of interactions according to infants» characteristics: term vs. pre-term or typical development vs. pathology (aggressive behavior; ADHD; Down syndrome; autism); and to compare the quality of interactions among parents experiencing pathology (depression; psychosis) vs. healthy controls.