BACKGROUND The Pediatrics Milestone Project uses behavioral anchors, narrative descriptions of observable behaviors, to describe learner progression through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies. Starting June 2014, pediatrics programs were required to submit milestone reports for their trainees semiannually. Likert-type scale assessment tools were not designed t...

OBJECTIVE To assess which subjective scale, the visual analogue scale (VAS), the Borg CR10 (Borg) scale, or the Likert scale (LS), if any, is decidedly more reproducible and sensitive to change in the assessment of symptoms. DESIGN Prospective clinical study. SETTING Exercise laboratory. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-three physically active male subjects (mean +/- SD age of 30 +/- 4 years old) were...

The reliability of the fuzzy scale for assessing the responses of a person in an opinion questionnaire (which is usually treated as a Likert-type questionnaire) is analyzed. Thus, a comparison between a classical Likert scale-based questionnaire and its fuzzy rating scale-based version in terms of their reliability is established. For this purpose, some questions of the Grasha-Riechmann student...

Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient is the most popular method of examining reliability. It is typically used when the researcher has several Likert-type items that are summed or averaged to make a composite score. Distribution of alpha coefficient has been subjected of many studies. In this study relationship between randomness and Cronbach alpha coefficient were investigated and in this context, pre...

technology foresight is a methodology for making the complexity and advanced nature of new technologies of future more comprehensible and transparent. the objective of this survey is to analyze and interpret weakness and strength of the current situation of iran organizations regarding utilization of foresight activities of developing new technologies and its influence over the country by usin...