Background: Outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. Thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. The present study was conducted to develop an instrument for meas...

background: our hearing ability in space is critical for hearing speech in noisy environment and localization. the spatial hearing questionnaire (shq) has been devised to focus only on spatial haring tasks (e.g., lateralization, distance detection and binaural detection). the aim of the present study was to determine the reliability and validity of the persian translation of the shq (spatial he...

background and purpose: of the significant processes for educational quality promotion is to evaluate the teachers' competency.this study has been conducted with the goal for designing and psychometric the measure for determining the professional competence of nursing faculty members. methods: the present research is the qualitative part of a sequential exploratory combined study of the co...

This article is a continuation of the previous module on designing questionnaires and clinical record form in which we have discussed some basic points about designing the questionnaire and clinical record forms. In this section, we will discuss the reliability and validity of questionnaires. The different types of validity are face validity, content validity, criterion validity, and construct ...

background and aim: quick speech in noise (q-sin) test has popularity for evaluating speech recognition in noise. the present study has been paid to build five new persian lists with respect to all possible factors affecting the test, to determine validity of the test and to run five lists for normal hearing subjects and assessment of reliability. methods: to build lists, frequent, familiar and...

this study aimed to design a questionnaire including characteristics of successful iranian efl teachers and substantiate its construct validity. based on the guidelines laid down by efl professors (n=5), teachers (n=11), learners (n=46), and suwandee's (1995) questionnaire about the characteristics of effective language teachers, a questionnaire (likert scale) consisting of 47 items, was d...

background and objectives: life satisfaction is one of the most important indicators for evaluation of mental health status in general population including university students. in this field, the appropriate tool is necessary. so, this study was carried out in order to assess the reliability and validity of the swls in the students of kashan nursing & midwifery faculty (knmf), kashan, iran, in ...

Background: Since hand hygiene is a key strategy for infection control, considering appropriate instrument for evaluating health care providers’ hand hygiene is essential. In this study, translation process and evaluating reliability and validity of hand hygiene questionnaire (HHQ) is described.  Methods: HHQ was translated into Persian with combined method. In this cross-sectiona...