Sentences with phrase «survey items measured»

Since tornado experiences can occur at any time throughout one's life, and in multiplicity, the survey items measured both one's most memorable tornado experience and his or her multiple experiences.

Not exact matches

Gradually, however, the realities of cultural politics are becoming evident even to secular academics, and some political scientists have developed survey items that distinguish among religious traditions as well as levels of religious commitment (the latter measured by church attendance, devotional practices, and the like).

The first survey evaluated an initial set of items measuring experiences, and the second was used to re-evaluate the experience items and to measure tornado risk perceptions.

* This item has been amended to confirm that DOE - sponsored aerial surveys began measuring radiation around the plant about 1 week after the reactor was hit by a tsunami, not 10 days.

The student surveys included multiple items assessing knowledge about art as well as measures of critical thinking, historical empathy, tolerance, and sustained interest in visiting art museums.

We measured how school tours of Crystal Bridges develop in students an interest in visiting art museums in two ways: with survey items and a behavioral measure.

And the interest in art museums measure is based on items in surveys given to students during both semesters.

From the 1970s until 1991, PDK measured voucher support with a survey item that defined vouchers as a government - funded program allowing parents to choose among public, private, and parochial schools.

In this paper, Hitt, Trivvit, and Cheng demonstrate across several longitudinal data sets that students who are more non-responsive to survey questions (skipping items or saying «don't know») have significantly lower educational attainment and fare less well in the labor market, even after controlling for a broad set of background characteristics and cognitive measures.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

The surveys included items assessing knowledge about art as well as measures of critical thinking, historical empathy, tolerance, and sustained interest in visiting art museums.

The Coleman Report itself measured family background by a series of survey questions given to the students that were combined into measures of urbanism, parents» education, structural integrity of the home, size of family, items in the home, reading material in the home, parents» interests, and parents» educational desires.

Their working paper, «The Dog That Didn't Bark,» provided the first compelling evidence that survey item response rates might be a measure of effort and conscientiousness.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

Expand the data currently collected in the NJ DOE culture and climate survey to include items that measure student social and emotional needs

The teacher survey administered to all participating schools during the first round of data collection included a set of items designed to measure the relative influence of those in multiple roles on school decision making (see Section 1.1).

Both the teacher surveys and both the principal surveys contained some items from established instruments with good reliability measures as well as many new items and scales.

The other measures are based largely on items that we adapted for this study from previous surveys.

We measured three additional variables with the teacher survey: school leadership (20 items), class conditions (15 items), and school conditions (21 items).

The seven survey items loading on Factor 2 measure the frequency with which specific actions with a direct focus on instructional improvement were enacted by the principal with individual teachers.

The second principal survey contained six items intended to measure principals «perceptions of the districts «focus on and support for improvements in teaching and learning.

We developed a new four - item scale for the principal survey to measure leaders «collective efficacy beliefs about school improvement.

The U.S. Department of Education also recognizes that school climate data are vital to differentiate school performance.80 To support states and districts in this work, the department developed ED School Climate Surveys for students, parents, educators, and noninstructional staff that measure engagement, safety, and school environment.81 States can add their own items to the survey platform, and New York state is currently piloting the surveys in eight distrSurveys for students, parents, educators, and noninstructional staff that measure engagement, safety, and school environment.81 States can add their own items to the survey platform, and New York state is currently piloting the surveys in eight distrsurveys in eight districts.82

Content validity is a subjective measure assessing the appropriateness of the survey items as determined by reviewers who have some knowledge of the subject matter.

The survey, which required about 20 minutes to complete, measured the collective leadership and teacher - performance antecedents described in our framework: 9 items measured collective leadership, 9 items measured teacher capacity, 17 items measured teacher motivation, and 14 items measured teacher work settings or conditions.

Our overall measure of school trust, on the basis of approximately two dozen survey items addressing teachers» attitudes toward their colleagues, principals, and parents, proved a powerful discriminator between improving and nonimproving schools.

This survey includes items related to Collaboration, Problem Solving, Self - Advocacy, Self - Reflection, and Communication to measure how the culture and climate of the school impacts career readiness.

The surveys included multiple items that assessed knowledge about art, as well as measures of tolerance, historical empathy and sustained interest in visiting art museums and other cultural institutions.

To tack on, typically the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is used to measure inflation, the CPI calculation is based on monthly price surveys for ~ 80,000 items that are intended to be a representative sample, the sample has to be quite large to capture inflation since there are so many variables that affect an individual item's pricing.

Respondents also reported their political self - identification (Democrat, Republican, Independent, or Other / none of the above), educational attainment, and environmental concern, the latter of which was borrowed from the same earlier survey and used here as a brief, one - item measure (see Appendix for question wordings).

The reason they evince «climate skepticism» in responding to survey items on «belief in» human - caused global warming is that those items aren't measuring what people know; they are measuring «who they are, whose side they are on,» in a mean, illiberal, collective - knowledge - vitiating, individual - reason - effacing cultural status competition.

One should also take the possible loss minimisation measures to reduce the losses and leave the damaged / destroyed items for survey / inspection.

Objective: To examine Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey items by sex and by total scores by sex vs clinical measures of impairment to examine the clinical utility of the ACE survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting.

Survey of private households measuring a range of budgetary issues, including weekly household expenditure, disposable income, detailed item of expenditure, taxation, State benefits, imputed expenditure, holidays, possession of household appliances and usage of household facilities.

Prior to MCS administration, psychometric testing of our English translation of the short - form Italian BFQ - C20 measure of personality dimensions was conducted using the data obtained from 645 children during pilot testing of the survey in 2014, with subsequent revision of 5 of the 25 items assessing these dimensions in the MCS.

The survey contained the 169 - item ITSEA (Carter & Briggs - Gowan, 2000; Carter, Briggs - Gowan, Jones & Little, 2003), which includes measures of internalizing, externalizing, dysregulation, and competence and three indices (social relatedness, atypical behaviors, and maladaptive) that consist of low base rate, clinically significant behaviors.

This type of research has discovered new types of negative behaviors in the workplace, which were not fully captured by survey items of existing scales designed to measure negative workplace behavior.

The findings of the survey revealed that the reliability of the two short versions of the questionnaire as measured by the method of the internal consistency and the average inter item correlation analysis is appropriate.

Measures utilized included items from self - administered surveys assessing the social development constructs targeted in the PDFY curriculum.

Measures utilized include a 138 - item survey, archival data on child abuse and neglect from the South Carolina Department of Social Services and ICD -9-CM coded hospital inpatient and emergency room discharge.

Measured using according to whether the mother's mean score SF - 12 (Ware et al. 1996) Health Survey mental health items measured at sweeps 1, 3 and 5 was below 1 SD of mean sample population value, indicating maternal depMeasured using according to whether the mother's mean score SF - 12 (Ware et al. 1996) Health Survey mental health items measured at sweeps 1, 3 and 5 was below 1 SD of mean sample population value, indicating maternal depmeasured at sweeps 1, 3 and 5 was below 1 SD of mean sample population value, indicating maternal depression.

The FQOL survey is a 25 - item questionnaire, which measures the quality of life in families of individuals with disabilities (Hoffman et al. 2006).

Items were based on both theoretical hypotheses related to the social context of adolescents and measurements that had been validated in other studies or previous WHO - HBSC surveys.27 Measures were pretested.

Therefore, studies that have applied survey scales to measure pathological gaming have generally included items concerning various problems and conflicts arising from gaming habits (e.g., Charlton and Danforth 2007; Salguero and Moran 2002).

We describe a new measure based on eight parent - reported items designed for use in large nationally representative surveys to assess social competence among children and adolescents 6 to 17 years of age.

The survey covers 144 cities in six continents and measures the comparative costs of more than 200 items in each location, including housing, transport, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.