A Proposed Rating Scale for Measuring Parolee Adjustment

A Proposed Scale for Measuring E-service Quality

With rapid growth of the Internet and the globalization of market, companies accepted and adopted the new information and communication technology to offer e-services to their customers. This paper addresses e-service quality issue in the electronic marketplace. The purpose of this paper is to extend what are the main service quality dimensions in the realm of e-service. The paper explores e-se...

Reliability and validity of a vertical numerical rating scale supplemented with a faces rating scale in measuring fatigue after stroke

BACKGROUND Poststroke fatigue is a persistent and distressing symptom among stroke survivors. In this study, we investigated the reliability and validity of a vertical numerical rating scale supplemented with a faces rating scale (NRS-FRS) in measuring poststroke fatigue. METHODS The fatigue intensity of 106 individuals with stroke was measured twice, 1 week apart, using a vertical NRS-FRS to...

A rating scale for depression.

Models for the Adjustment of Rating Scales

In a category rating experiment using a graded series of squares we changed both stimulus range and frequency during the experimental session. Range-frequency theory (Parducci, 1965; Parducci & Perrett, 1971; Parducci & Wedell, 1986) predicts the same rate of adjustment to the new stimulus range and to the new stimulus frequencies. Its closest competitor, consistency theory (Haubensak, 1992a, 1...

A psychiatric rating scale for schizophrenia in Singapore (Woodbridge Hospital rating scale for schizophrenia).

This scale is constructed to meet the need for an efficient, rapid and economical method of measuring change in schizophrenic patients during the course of psychotropic medication (drug trial) in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual population of low educational level. Items are included only if (1) they can be elicited objectively, (2) they are important symptoms of schizophrenia and (3) they are f...