Sentences with phrase «scale questions measuring»

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Thank you for this amazing recipe one question though, I added my buttermilk substitute (milk + lemon juice) and egg mixture until the consistency was like shown in the picture, but was left with about 1/3 -1 / 4 of the wet ingredients... I measured my ingredients on an electric scale, could it be because I used cake flour instead of all - purpose?

More disturbing still, the «anxiety / insecurity woozle» was based on three questions taken from a validated test that assesses infants» readiness to begin talking — a three item «scale» the authors designed and interpreted as a measure of infant anxiety and insecurity.

To measure the ideological position of the different groups, survey instruments usually carry a question asking respondents on where they see themselves in a left to right scale.

Reeher: Juanita Perez Williams, similar question to what I just asked Laura Lavine, but if we don't use the measures that Howie Hawkins is talking about and I think on a smaller scale, what Ben Walsh is talking about, are we left with just citizens hoping that whoever gets elected among the four of you is going to be able to leverage more money from the state?

To tackle this question, the researchers employed a new technique that makes it possible to measure of the stability allergens and non-allergens in the dust mite on a large scale.

Those first three questions, I can back up with data from my glucose monitor, rowing machine, scale and measuring tape.

The critical question, given that neither ability nor item difficulty can be measured directly, is whether the procedures of inference are powerful enough to put the resulting ratings of ability and difficulty on equal - unit scales.

Use the scale and measure the distance to complete the question

This can be used as part of a practical lesson on measuring capacity, including the ability to read scales accurately and questions to test understanding.

Children have to read the scales of the measuring jug to state how much water is in each and then answer questions about which contains the most / le...

Children have to read the scales of the measuring jug to state how much water is in each and then answer questions about which contains the most / least.

And that brings us to those unanswered questions: Can the charter - school movement grow to sufficient scale for long - term political sustainability if we continue to use «quality» — as measured by such factors as test scores — as the sole indicator of a successful school?

The question should instead be, «If scales from a testing regime are used within a value - added process, is there evidence that measures of student progress are influenced by the distribution of student achievement levels in schools or classrooms because of a lack of equal - interval scales?»

An Australian firm that measures investing risk, FinaMetrica, offers a more rigorous 25 - question risk profile questionnaire that grades you on a scale of 0 to 100, comes with a detailed report and also suggests a portfolio mix.

Griffiths» play with scale invites us to question how we measure and experience the world as well as reminding us that there is more to Bill Murray than Ghostbusters.

Jason Kalogiros» artworks in The Measure, The Weight, The Ground, The Scale, on view at Capital, bring to light the inherent reproducibility shared between this mode of sculpture and photography, in turn raising questions about the supposed autonomy of the art object.

Temperatures measured by the ARGO floats and the XBTs before them are rising in the raw data, and the ocean heat content (OHC) is simply observed temperature change scaled by the thermal mass of the ocean layer in question - not some kind of complex model.

If you make the parcels of gas small enough, then you reach a scale where «temperature» as an average measure of energy breaks down, where the tiny parcels of gas are constantly «heating» or «cooling» a tiny bit in the sense that the volume in question gains or loses a bit of energy during the random motion of the molecules.

These are good questions to Ira as he has reduced everything to radiation and is trying to measure heat content (the scales going down and reading more) at one place by using temperature.

The same country that has made headlines for measuring Gross National Happiness (there are some legitimate questions for how GNH is calculated) and aiming for 100 % organic agriculture recently announcing a partnership with Nissan to supply electric vehicles (EVs) to government and taxi fleets, as well as electric vehicle chargers, as part of a broad scale effort to cut fossil fuel imports by a whopping 70 %, eventually aiming to become a zero emissions nation.

What further puts the credibility of the CSA approach in question is the fact that it was the World Bank that brought forward the idea of measuring how certain agricultural practices sequester carbon in soil so as to turn the carbon captured by the soils of the small scale farmers into carbon credits.

As a check on our own measure of bullying, we performed the same analysis using the short - form Behavior Problems Index, which includes a validated antisocial score for each child.31 (We revised the Antisocial scale by subtracting the values of the answers to the bullying question, which would otherwise contribute to the Antisocial scale.)

Measurements were two questions from the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders patient questionnaire, both the long and short forms of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, both the long and short forms of the Beck Depression Inventory, the Symptom - Driven Diagnostic System for Primary Care, the Medical Outcomes Study depression measure, and the Quick Diagnostic Interview Schedule.

The K10 / K6 scales were developed to measure this dimension by using modern item response theory methods9 that select questions with optimal sensitivity in the 90th - to 99th - percentile range of the general population distribution of psychological distress and that have consistent item response theory sensitivities across a number of sociodemographic subsamples.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsiscales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsiscales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsiScales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsiscales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsiscales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

First, since we are building on previous work by Simmons et al. (2009) by including two insecure scales along with secure attachment, we felt the three - dimensional measure was theoretically consistent with our research questions (Ravitz et al. 2010).

The third major question, measured by the Family Environment Scales, showed no significant treatment effect for any of the variables measured.

Scaling questions invite clients to employ measuring and tracking of their own experience, in a non-threatening way.

Questions are used to elicit useful details of behavior to measure by, resources and support (e.g. «what's stopping you from slipping one point lower down the scale?»).

The scale includes 25 questions which are used to measure five aspects of the child's development - emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity / inattention, peer relationship problems and pro-social behaviour.

The Disruptive Behavior Disorder Rating Scale (DBDRS) consists of 45 questions designed to measure DSM - IV symptoms of ADHD, ODD and CD using 0 («not at all») to 3 («very much») Likert scales [41].

Measures include the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), the Test of Early Reading Ability (TERA), the Academic Rating Scale, the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), the Kochanska Inhibitory Control Battery, the Social Skills Rating Scale, and the Family Involvement Questionnaire, with supplemental questions regarding parental support for children's learning.

Measures used included the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES - D), Parenting Stress Index (PSI), Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS), and CAGE questions (which ask about alcohol use).

The instrument employed in data collection had demographic questions for participant characterization (sex, age, relationship duration, state of residence, and university course or occupation), as well as two psychometric instruments that had already been validated in a Brazilian context: 1) Reduced version of the Triangular Love Scale in Brazilian Portuguese (ETAS) validated by Cassepp - Borges and Teodoro (2007): this measure has 3 subscales that assess the components of love according to Sternberg's theoretical model (1986), intimacy (proximity and bond), commitment (decision to be inside the relationship) and passion (physical and sexual attraction).

Increasingly, in complex public health evaluation research, there are questions about whether all relevant benefits can be captured in a single summary outcome measure such as QALY or unit of «effectiveness» or net benefit approach17 which is why the use of a cost - consequence analysis (CCA) framework is being recommended for such economic evaluations.18 Other outcomes from the trial such as the Parent — Infant Relationship Global Assessment Scale (an observational measure that is independently rated blind to group allocation) will be included in the CCA so that all costs and outcomes from the trial can be displayed transparently for decision - makers to consider trade - offs themselves.

Reports from parents and teachers about peer functioning, as well as self reports, are often collected in the form of rating scales, for example, the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) 21 or the Self - Perception Profile for Children.22 Recent studies examining self - reports of competence in children with ADHD, however, indicate overly inflated reports that are at odds with both others» perspectives23, 24 and inconsistent with actual performance.15 These studies question the utility of self - report measures for children with ADHD when the goal of assessment is to obtain accurate competence information.

The 6 - question perceived parental communication scale was adapted from the 10 - item Open Family Communication Scale.12 The following statements measure participants» perceptions of communication with their parents: (1) «I find it easy to discuss problems with at least one of my parents or guardians.&rscale was adapted from the 10 - item Open Family Communication Scale.12 The following statements measure participants» perceptions of communication with their parents: (1) «I find it easy to discuss problems with at least one of my parents or guardians.&rScale.12 The following statements measure participants» perceptions of communication with their parents: (1) «I find it easy to discuss problems with at least one of my parents or guardians.»

Scores ≥ 10 and > 12 indicate probable depression in community and clinical samples, respectively.12, 13 Mothers rated their stress levels (1 = «no problems or stresses» to 5 = «many problems and stressful») and coping (1 = «extremely well» to 5 = «not at all») on global 5 - point scales.14 Two additional questions assessed limits on daily functioning as a result of maternal emotional or physical health problems (adapted from a generic health measure, the SF6).