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The Impact of Item Parameter Drift in Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT).

Journal of applied measurement

Risk N.
PMID: 26784378
J Appl Meas. 2016;17(1):54-78.

This study looked at numerous aspects of item parameter drift (IPD) and its impact on measurement in computer adaptive testing (CAT). A series of CAT simulations were conducted, varying the amount and magnitude of IPD, as well as the...

Online and Social Media Data As an Imperfect Continuous Panel Survey.

PloS one

Diaz F, Gamon M, Hofman JM, Kıcıman E, Rothschild D.
PMID: 26730933
PLoS One. 2016 Jan 05;11(1):e0145406. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145406. eCollection 2016.

There is a large body of research on utilizing online activity as a survey of political opinion to predict real world election outcomes. There is considerably less work, however, on using this data to understand topic-specific interest and opinion...

It's good to talk.

Nature

[No authors listed]
PMID: 26201561
Nature. 2015 Jul 23;523(7561):382. doi: 10.1038/523382a.

No abstract available.

A review of instruments to measure interprofessional team-based primary care.

Journal of interprofessional care

Shoemaker SJ, Parchman ML, Fuda KK, Schaefer J, Levin J, Hunt M, Ricciardi R.
PMID: 27212003
J Interprof Care. 2016 Jul;30(4):423-32. doi: 10.3109/13561820.2016.1154023. Epub 2016 May 21.

Interprofessional team-based care is increasingly regarded as an important feature of delivery systems redesigned to provide more efficient and higher quality care, including primary care. Measurement of the functioning of such teams might enable improvement of team effectiveness and...

A Cross-Sectional Study of Psychological Comparison Processes That May Underlie the Acceptance of Chronic Pain.

Clinical psychology & psychotherapy

Orfgen H, Dijkstra A.
PMID: 26238435
Clin Psychol Psychother. 2016 Nov;23(6):487-495. doi: 10.1002/cpp.1973. Epub 2015 Aug 04.

Acceptance of chronic pain varies between patients but may also be expected to develop and change within patients. In this latter framework, the present study explored three psychological processes that may contribute to changes in acceptance: social comparisons, temporal...

Restricted Versus Unrestricted Search Space: Experience from Mining a Large Japanese Database.

Studies in health technology and informatics

Nienhoff H, Huebner U, Frey A, Przysucha M, Kimura M.
PMID: 26262371
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;216:1072.

The aim of this study was to investigate whether standard Big Data mining methods lead to clinically useful results. An association analysis was performed using the apriori algorithm to discover associations among co-morbidities of diabetes patients. Selected data were...

Dependence Assessment in Human Reliability Analysis Using Evidence Theory and AHP.

Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis

Su X, Mahadevan S, Xu P, Deng Y.
PMID: 25847228
Risk Anal. 2015 Jul;35(7):1296-316. doi: 10.1111/risa.12347. Epub 2015 Apr 06.

Dependence assessment among human errors in human reliability analysis (HRA) is an important issue. Many of the dependence assessment methods in HRA rely heavily on the expert's opinion, thus are subjective and may sometimes cause inconsistency. In this article,...

Examiner characteristics and interrater reliability in a communication OSCE.

Patient education and counseling

Mortsiefer A, Karger A, Rotthoff T, Raski B, Pentzek M.
PMID: 28139274
Patient Educ Couns. 2017 Jun;100(6):1230-1234. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2017.01.013. Epub 2017 Jan 24.

OBJECTIVE: To identify inter-individual examiner factors associated with interrater reliability in a summative communication OSCE in the 4th study year.METHODS: The OSCE consists of 4 stations assessed with a 4-item 5-point global rating instrument. A bivariate secondary analysis of...

RRIDs: A Simple Step toward Improving Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency of Experimental Methods.

Neuron

Bandrowski AE, Martone ME.
PMID: 27151636
Neuron. 2016 May 04;90(3):434-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.04.030.

With the call for more rigorous scientific reporting, authentication, and transparency from the scientific community and funding agencies, one critical step is to make finding and identifying key resources in the published literature tractable. We discuss here the use...

Nurse Competence Scale: a systematic and psychometric review.

Journal of advanced nursing

Flinkman M, Leino-Kilpi H, Numminen O, Jeon Y, Kuokkanen L, Meretoja R.
PMID: 27731918
J Adv Nurs. 2017 May;73(5):1035-1050. doi: 10.1111/jan.13183. Epub 2016 Nov 07.

AIM: The aim of this study was to report a systematic and psychometric review.BACKGROUND: The Nurse Competence Scale is currently the most widely used generic instrument to measure Registered Nurses' competence in different phases of their careers. Based on...

The Incremental Validity of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Journal of personality assessment

Andrei F, Siegling AB, Aloe AM, Baldaro B, Petrides KV.
PMID: 26457443
J Pers Assess. 2016;98(3):261-76. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2015.1084630. Epub 2015 Oct 12.

A criticism leveled against the conceptualization of emotional intelligence (EI) as a personality trait is that it overlaps considerably with the higher order personality dimensions and, therefore, has weak utility. To investigate this criticism, a systematic review and meta-analysis...

Measuring resilience in palliative care workers using the situational judgement test methodology.

Medical education

Pangallo A, Zibarras L, Patterson F.
PMID: 27762011
Med Educ. 2016 Nov;50(11):1131-1142. doi: 10.1111/medu.13072.

OBJECTIVES: Relatively little research has been directed toward the assessment of resilience in the health care context. Given the stressors associated with the provision of health care, the present study describes the development and evaluation of a situational judgement...

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