Existing science evidence sustained that students’ preferences for a learning approach (i.e., deep or surface learning) depend on several contextual variables. In this study, we used the network psychometrics perspective to investigate interactions between elements define preferences. We aimed understand which are central of behavior patterns when they decide adopt one specific approach. Revise...

test the psychometric properties of the persian version of the perception of psychiatry survey questionnaire, which is being used in a large multi-site international study, of which we were part. this instrument was designed to measure the attitudes of medical educators to psychiatry.we used world health organization guideline as the methodological model for persian translation. the persian ver...

background and objectives: patient satisfaction is a key feature of quality improvement in modern health care systems. the focus of patient satisfaction studies has been on inpatient satisfaction measurement. as such, valid and reliable instruments for assessment of outpatient satisfaction are lacking in the field. this study aimed to develop and validate a brief scale to facilitate assessing o...

Linguistic labels such as high, medium, and low are commonly used in different applications. Researchers in psychometrics argue that before adding new labels to applications, the labels must be empirically evaluated. In this paper, we explain the process of selecting labels for a security assessment application. We also show how we evaluate the labels empirically using a sample population from ...

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques are statistical techqnies that convert information about distances between a number of objects into a spatial representation of these objects. These techniques were first discussed systematically in psychometrics [Torgerson, 1958; Coombs, 1964] as multidimensional extensions of univariate psychophysics and sensory scaling. Because they needed considerab...