The goal of this study was to translate and adapt The Pain Disability Questionnaire (PDQ) to Brazilian Portuguese, as well as to assess its psychometric properties and practicability. The following methodological steps were followed: translation, synthesis, back-translation, expert committee assessment and pre-test. The psychometric properties were assessed through the application of a question...

This paper analyzes the theoretical, pragmatic, and substantive factors that have hampered the integration between psychology and psychometrics. Theoretical factors include the operationalist mode of thinking which is common throughout psychology, the dominance of classical test theory, and the use of "construct validity" as a catch-all category for a range of challenging psychometric problems....

OBJECTIVE To review the evidence base for measures of cognitive functioning frequently used within the field of pediatric psychology. METHODS From a list of 47 measures identified by the Society of Pediatric Psychology (Division 54) Evidence-Based Assessment Task Force Workgroup, 27 measures were included in the review. Measures were organized, reviewed, and evaluated according to general dom...

Children and adolescents with long-term physical conditions (LTPCs) are at greater risk of developing psychosocial problems. Screening for such problems may be undertaken using validated psychometric instruments to facilitate early intervention. A systematic review was undertaken to identify clinically utilized and psychometrically validated instruments for identifying depression, anxiety, beha...

This paper introduces AgentLab, a distributed laboratory over Internet based on Java and mobile agents. Java ensures portability of measurement software, facilitates interoperability with existing I/O drivers and makes it possible to use mobile agents as the building blocks in-the-large. A measurement test is assembled as a collection of actors plus a runtime support, and is mapped onto a mobil...

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2008.11.007 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 011 6706718. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Sereno). Knowledge of emergent properties of existing peer-to-peer file-sharing communities can be helpful for the design and implementation of innovative peer-to-peer protocols/services that exploit autonomicity, self-configuratio...

Companies using domain specific languages in a model-driven development process need to measure their models. However, developing and maintaining a measurement software for each domain specific modeling language is costly. Our contribution is a model-driven measurement approach. This measurement approach is model-driven from two viewpoints: 1) it measures models of a model-driven development pr...

Achieving accurate judgment ('judgmental achievement') is of utmost importance in daily life across multiple domains. The lens model and the lens model equation provide useful frameworks for modeling components of judgmental achievement and for creating tools to help decision makers (e.g., physicians, teachers) reach better judgments (e.g., a correct diagnosis, an accurate estimation of intelli...

BACKGROUND The quality of the Educational environment is a key determinant of a student centred curriculum. Evaluation of the educational environment is an important component of programme appraisal. In order to conduct such evaluation use of a comprehensive, valid and reliable instrument is essential. One of most widely used contemporary tools for evaluation of the learning environment is the ...

BACKGROUND The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture was designed to assess staff views on patient safety culture in hospital settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the multilevel psychometric properties of the survey. METHODS Survey data from 331 U.S. hospitals with 2,267 hospital units and 50,513 respondents were analyzed to ...