DOI 10.1027/0044-3409.216.1.12 Abstract. A computerized adaptive testing (CAT) procedure was simulated with ordinal polytomous personality data collected using a conventional paper-and-pencil testing format. An adapted Dutch version of the dominance scale of Gough and Heilbrun’s Adjective Check List (ACL) was used. This version contained Likert response scales with five categories. Item paramet...

According to the empirical literature, there are high rates of borderline personality disorder (BPD) among individuals with formal diagnoses of eating disorders, and high rates of eating disorders among individuals with BPD. In this study, we examined relationships between three eating disorder symptoms (i.e., binge eating, starving oneself, abusing laxatives) and borderline personality symptom...

Transformational leadership is seen as a mediator of employee voice behavior. This study attempts to investigate the influence style an organizational variable that can motivate behavior and expand understanding relationship between personal characteristics voice. The research was conducted among public sector employees online. A total 410 questionnaires were collected. After elimination invali...

Mixed integer programming (MIP) is a current approach for test assembly. Despite its popularity, it has two important disadvantages. Commercial MIP packages do not support all types of constraints and have a reluctance to go beyond the test assembly problem itself. A new test assembly algorithm based on a Monte Carlo random search is developed in the paper. The new approach attains the level of...

ôbjective: type d personality is based on negative affectivity (nâ) and social inhibition (sï). the purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the persian version of 14-item type d personality scale (ds14). methods: the study included 191 normal participants and 176 patients with myocardial infarction (mï). they all filled out the persian version of ds14, containing 7-...

Developed countries increasingly compete for a pool of talented students from developing countries. This competition brings host countries to vertically differentiate their education programmes: some countries offer higher education quality and charge high tuition fees, while others provide a lower quality for lower tuition fees. This paper argues that the education quality of high-quality coun...

Data provided by 400 first year undergraduate students were analysed to develop two short forms of the Eysenck Personality Profiler (EPP) in which each of the 22 primary scales is assessed by a 6-item and a 12item version instead of the usual 20-item per scale measure. In comparison with the 6-item per scale measure, the 12-item version retains more of the characteristics of the long version an...

Unlike teacher beliefs, there has been a dearth of study regarding EFL learner beliefs. The reason can be that Horwitz (1987) and the existing literature has predominantly been in an ESL context. The present study reports the development and validation of a scale to measure the learner beliefs about language learning in Iranian EFL contexts. Using a combination of verbal creativity method, inte...