Sentences with phrase «predictive validity as»

When pathways leading to clinically elevated aggression at age 5 were explored, infant disorganized attachment status, maternal personality risk, and child - rearing disagreements demonstrated equivalent predictive validity as child aggression assessed at age 3 years.

In the coming years, it will be important to track whether or not the measures maintain their predictive validity as they are used for tenure decisions, teacher evaluations and merit pay.

Not exact matches

Early Krosnick research («Maximizing Questionnaire Quality», 1999) saw ranking questions as having greater predictive validity, but a number of studies since, include his own later research, show rating questions as having greater validity (Krosnick, Thomas, and Shaeffer, 2003; Maio, Roese, Seligman, Katz, 1996).

Nonetheless, institutions pushed forward with the use of personality tests to select among teacher candidates, often using multiple indexes, even as critics warned that some instruments had low predictive validity, that there was inconsistency in results, or that the lack of replication warranted cautious use.

In this context, a traditional psychometric concern with predictive validity, e.g., whether answers to assessment items predict other behaviors in other situations, is not primary — having friends is the end goal assessed by the report card, not having friends as a predictor of something else.

While our study provides valuable evidence on predictive validity, this, of course, is not the only consideration that should inform a state's decision as to its preferred assessment.

As the majority's final report put it, there is no «commonly accepted criterion for determining» when «differences in predictive validity signify noncomparable scores.»

He also served as senior adviser on the first study of the predictive validity of new, Common - Core - aligned assessments, assisting Massachusetts in its decision about using the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments.

Using a predictive validity study to examine the survey results as they relate to student achievement on standardized assessments, McREL researchers found that school climate was the greatest predictor of Grade 5 achievement in literacy.

As explained in the introduction, the final version of the questionnaire has also been included in four other studies (samples 3, 4, 5 and 6) in order to examine concurrent, predictive and divergent validity.

Australian and US data from a large multi-instrument comparison survey were used to conduct tests of convergent, predictive and content validity using as comparators five other multi-attribute utility (MAU) instruments — the EQ - 5D, SF - 6D, Health Utilities Index (HUI) 3, 15D and the Quality of Well - Being (QWB)-- as well as four non-utility instruments — the SF - 36 and three measures of subjective well - being (SWB).

Using the comparative criteria adopted here its predictive validity is at least as great as the predictive validity of other MAU instruments.

In a prior study, our group compared the relative predictive validity of childhood OAD as compared with DSM - IV GAD in predicting adolescent disorders.

As was the case with the internalizing / externalizing scales, many of these broad - band measures have successfully discriminated between different diagnostic groups (concurrent / predictive validity) and they tend to be significantly associated with other measures purported to be measuring the same constructs (i.e., convergent validity; range =.03 — .92; median =.42).

The agreement between potential clinical criteria (construct validity) and the ability of the criteria to predict outcomes typical of sepsis, such as need for intensive care unit (ICU) admission or death (predictive validity, a form of criterion validity), were then tested.

Finally, as a test of the predictive validity of the BIQ - SF, parent and teacher reports of behavioral inhibition were related to direct observations of specific behaviors that have been shown to be indicative of an inhibited temperament (e.g., [1, 23, 49].

The following aspects of the BIQ - SF were subjected to a psychometric evaluation: (a) the hypothesized six - correlated factors structure of the scale was tested by means of a confirmatory factor analysis, (b) various types of reliability were investigated including the internal consistency, test — retest reliability, and cross-informant agreement, and (c) several aspects of the validity were explored such as the relations with anxiety and internalizing (i.e., convergent validity) and externalizing (i.e., divergent validity) symptoms as well as the relations between BIQ - SF scores of parents and teachers and laboratory observations of an inhibited temperament (i.e., predictive validity).

Although the number, shape, and predictive validity of internalizing trajectory classes were similar across gender, trajectory classes» initial values and rates of change varied significantly across gender, as did the impact of maternal postpartum depression and anxiety on latent growth factors.

Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preferences (Preferences as Independent Variable): Do we desire romantic partners who match our ideals more than partners who do not?

The objectives were a) to assess the classification accuracy of the CAGI (sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values) for detecting problem gambling as confirmed by clinical assessment; and b) to compare the CAGI with existing instruments for youth problem gambling (convergent validity).

Moreover, correlations between preschool and age 5 scores were comparable to those between age 5 and 7 scores, supporting the predictive validity of the preschool SDQ as similar to the school - age SDQ administered at age 5.

The objectives of this study were to establish the different developmental trajectories of hyperactive — impulsive behaviors on the basis of both mother and father ratings at 19, 32, 50, and 63 months, and to examine the predictive validity of these trajectories with respect to later hyperactive — impulsive behaviors, as rated by teachers in the first 2 years of school.

We tested predictive criterion validity using age 5 outcomes of ADHD and ASD / AS (binary measures) by using probit regression and PSE (continuous) by using linear regression.

The current study investigated the reliability and predictive validity of the PTQ - C and examined temperament as a developmental predictor of RNT.

Concurrent / predictive validity includes correlations between the measure and outcomes it is purported to predict as well as evidence of the measure's ability to differentiate between distinct groups.

Such first signs of a process of generalization indicate that the assessment of attachment as a more general, non-relationship-specific, characteristic of the middle - childhood child is meaningful, but the predictive validity of such assessment needs yet to be established.

Given the limited improvement typically obtained in treatment studies that use peer report measures as outcomes with ADHD samples and the well - documented predictive validity of peer reports for later adjustment, the need for more intensive interventions and novel approaches to address the peer problems of children with ADHD is emphasized.