Sentences with phrase «recent validity study»

He's instructed his staff to prepare materials for families telling them not to put much credence into the Florida Standards Assessments scores and school grades this year, particularly in light of a recent validity study that raised many questions about the test's reliability.

Not exact matches

«Our study is the first to provide the much needed empiric confirmation that multidisciplinary physicians throughout the country overwhelmingly accept the validity of these diagnoses, and refutes the recent contention that there is this emerging «groundswell» of physician opinion against the diagnoses.»

Several recent meta analyses have suggested that dietary supplementation with EPA and DHA does not provide additive cardiovascular protection beyond standard care, but the heterogeneity of included studies may reduce the validity of their conclusions.

A recent report by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel, an independent panel run by the American Institutes for Research, found that NAEP is reasonably, though not entirely, aligned with the common core.

In a recent report, the Institute of Medicine identified 5 risk factors associated with the onset of depression: having a parent or other close biological relative with a mood disorder; experiencing a severely stressful event; having low self - esteem, a sense of low self - efficacy, and a sense of helplessness or hopelessness; being female; and living in poverty.39 This national study of depressive symptoms in mothers of children in kindergarten who attended a Head Start program supports the predictive validity of several of the risk factors published by the Institute of Medicine and corroborates findings from several earlier studies that examine depression in mothers of young children.

The study also addressed the issue of criterion validity using as criteria specific variables based on recent bibliography.

This did support, within the current small sample the basic distinction indicated in the recent construct validity studies between a socially affective and a social control component rather than Schutz's model.

A recent study (Ensink et al., 2015) supported the validity of the CRFS in distinguishing sexually abused children from a community control group.