Sentences with phrase «validity studies of»

Validity studies of measures for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) for use with preschool children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are lacking.

The Florida Legislature has mandated a validity study of our assessments by an independent firm.

The long - awaited validity study of Florida Standard Assessment tests, as requested by the Legislature, has been released.

Trusting teacher's judgments: A validity study of a curriculum - embedded performance assessment in Kindergarten — Grade 3.

Policy Implications of a Predictive Validity Study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test at Three Elite New York City High Schools By Jonathan Taylor Adviser: Dr. Herbert Saltzstein Although

Policy Implications of a Predictive Validity Study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test at Three Elite New York City High Schools

Trusting Teachers» Judgements: A Validity Study of a Curriculum Embedded Performance Assessment in Kindergarten Grade 3

A convergent validity study of Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory with the Coolidge Axis 11 Inventory

Not exact matches

«The sponsors of the study can not assure the validity of the data, so we, Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham, are retracting the paper,» the authors wrote.

His method for studying the validity of elections is to compare exit poll results with official election outcomes.

If Ehrman is right, it would seem that historical studies could never support the validity of miracle claims such as the resurrection.

@Robert Must be the same cabal that's got all those thousands of scientists from various fields of study falsfiying the results of tens of thousands of experiments that prove the validity of the Theory of Evolution.

Having spent several years in the study of Whitehead's thought in seminary and later in graduate philosophy seminars, I had finally worked out a position on the validity of Hartshorne's ontological argument that related that argument back to the more empirical, experiential, and descriptive theism of Whitehead.

It is sufficient to say here that studies call into question the validity of the figures given by the broadcasters to justify their evangelistic activities.

Philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who formerly were fascinated by the comparative approach to the study of world religions have begun to question the validity of such an approach.

But in studying the teaching there is again danger of misunderstanding, of supposing such teaching to be a system of general truths, a system of propositions which have validity apart from the concrete life situation of the speaker.

That quote is nowhere to be found in the study that Rosin linked to, so I have no way of evaluating the context (we know Rosin is good at taking things out of context) or the validity of the approach used.

In fact, the authors do not discuss the reliability or validity of any study included in the review (Wax et al, 2010), or why any particular study was excluded and this is potentially the primary issue with the Wax study.

It makes sense that this study does not have much validity if the only women who participated in the study were those who agreed to document their experiences based out of their own interest (self - selection bias) rather than a random sample that covered a diverse range of experiences.

In order to discredit the study that shows a nearly 1000 % increase in stillbirth, Wendy Gordon and MANA apparently feel they have no choice but to deceive their followers, since telling the truth would require accepting the validity of the paper.

There have been some isues with the validity of these studies however we always prefer to use a cooking method other than microwaving.

Although in this study information on breastfeeding practice was reliant upon maternal recall at 9 months, breastfeeding figures are in agreement with data collected prospectively in the UK Infant Feeding Survey conducted in 2000.32 Likewise, the validity of maternal recall of the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery has been shown to be accurate.33 We were unable to adjust for maternal intention to breastfeed at antenatal booking, a factor shown to be important in previous studies34 as this information was not collected in the survey.

No studies were completely bias free, but 4 studies were considered to be of good quality on the basis of only one threat to validity out of a total possible of five [25 — 28].

Methodologic concerns have been raised about the validity of the study methods used in this study, 344,345 and these results have not been substantiated by others.

Case - control study of current validity of previously described risk factors for SIDS in the Netherlands

However, because only a few studies were graded to be of high quality, we suggest that further research, conducted with good methodology and large sample sizes, should be carried out to strengthen the validity of these observations.

We matched ResQu items to domains identified by these authors as critical to study quality, internal and external validity, and standard of reporting.

Despite careful measures to maximise content validity and consistency, it inevitably involves subjective judgements, both in the selection and weighting of items, and their application to appraise published studies of place of birth.

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).

The charity said this was «particularly concerning» as most of these experiments studied human diseases which do not exist in non-human primates, such as Parkinson's Disease, and this they suggested «significantly challenges» the validity of the tests.

A pilot study was done in Konongo, a mining community in Ashanti Region to test the applicability and validity of the research in January, 2013.

The electoral register would become progressively more out of date during its period of validity, as electors moved or died (also people studying or working away from home often had difficulty voting).

Plus, one of the authors, Thomas Nichols, issued a correction, dialing back the 40,000 figure: Updated language in the study now questions «the validity of a number of fMRI studies.»

A new Norwegian diet intervention study (FATFUNC), performed by researchers at the KG Jebsen center for diabetes research at the University of Bergen, raises questions regarding the validity of a diet hypothesis that has dominated for more than half a century: that dietary fat and particularly saturated fat is unhealthy for most people.

the epistemology of physics: Epistemology is the study of the nature, source, limits, and validity of knowledge, and for physics that means how physics devises and tests its theories concerning physical phenomena;

As the study of cannibalism gained scientific validity in the 1980s, more and more researchers began looking at the phenomenon, bringing with them expertise in a variety of fields.

The authors say: «It is possible that either AET, RT or CT may be easier to perform effectively without supervision, thus affecting the external validity of these results since only studies with supervised training were included.»

«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.»

«Our study shows the validity of two scales for assessing how cognitive impairments are associated with many substance disorders including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and one's ability to function well in important interpersonal or occupational areas,» said Efrat Aharonovich, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, and first author.

The study, he says, «raises questions about the validity of happiness self - report measures generally.»

«This study highlights the importance of confirming the validity of potential biomarkers in a relevant, large animal model and will be useful in the design of future clinical trails,» commented lead investigator Stephen J. Kolb, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.

«Our study is the first to develop and test this important new methodology, and to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the CAM - S, a novel approach to measure delirium severity.»

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

The study, to be conducted by the National Academies, will check the validity of the scientific techniques used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in solving the case.

«Due to the complexity of the studied phenomena, one should not arbitrarily extend the validity of the presented results by assuming that a tsunami with a magnitude at generation five times larger, for example, would result in an inundation area five times larger,» cautions Samaras.

To ensure the validity of the frog as a new species, Mr Seshadri and his team members studied the genes, body structure, colouration and vocalisations of four individual frogs.

In addition, for this study, they created an autistic behavior section, using the following criteria: 1) whether reliability and validity data were available in typically developing individuals and / or in those with neurodevelopmental disorders; 2) whether the measure had been piloted in FXS clinical trials; and 3) whether the measure addressed an important aspect of the FXS symptom.

Researchers also tested the validity of conscious experiences using objective markers for the first time in a large study to determine whether claims of awareness compatible with out - of - body experiences correspond with real or hallucinatory events.

«It's important for us to study materials from asteroids and meteorites, the smaller versions of asteroids that fall to Earth, to test the validity of our models for how molecules in them could have helped give rise to life.

Cameron and Pauling again denounced the study as being methodologically different from theirs and, therefore, an inadequate basis for disproving the validity of their findings.