Rating-scale evaluations are common in NLP, but are problematic for a range of reasons, e.g. they can be unintuitive for evaluators, inter-evaluator agreement and self-consistency tend to be low, and the parametric statistics commonly applied to the results are not generally considered appropriate for ordinal data. In this paper, we compare rating scales with an alternative evaluation paradigm,...

For more than 30 years, underrepresentation of certain racial, cultural, and income groups in gifted and talented programs has been documented as a serious problem. Not only does this issue make gifted programs appear as if they are designed solely for upper class, dominant-culture individuals, but it also means that talented students from diverse backgrounds are not having their needs met. Thi...

Nel DSM-IV-TR il disturbo di depersonalizzazione e situato nell'ambito dei disturbi dissociativi, ed e caratterizzato dalla esperienza persistente o ricorrente di sentirsi distaccato o di sentirsi un esterno osservatore dei propri processi mentali o del proprio corpo. Durante 1'esperienza di depersonalizzazione, il test di realta rimane intatto e il paziente prova un disagio clinicamente rileva...

Studies assessing rating scales are very common in psychology and related fields, but are rare in NLP. In this paper we assess discrete and continuous scales used for measuring quality assessments of computergenerated language. We conducted six separate experiments designed to investigate the validity, reliability, stability, interchangeability and sensitivity of discrete vs. continuous scales....

The usage of Likert-type scales has become widespread practice in current IS research. Those scales require individuals to choose between a limited number of choices, and have been criticized in the literature for causing loss of information, allowing the researcher to affect responses by determining the range, and being ordinal in nature. The use of online surveys allows for the easy implement...

Although psychotic symptoms are usually viewed as dichotomous events, both patients and nonpatients often report isolated psychotic experiences as well as psychotic-like experiences, the latter being attenuated versions of psychotic experiences. College students, previously identified as probably at high risk for psychosis, were interviewed using a modified Schedule for Affecting Disorders and ...

Background: development in students' training management that emphasizes on using objective methods and more faculties' engagement in students evaluation, were motivation for application tools such as flowchart, checklists and rating scales. This study examined the effectiveness of Performance Rating Tables (PRTs) in evaluation of medical interns in Mashhad, Iran. Methods: Internship Performanc...

BACKGROUND Researchers setting out to conduct research employing questionnaires in non-English speaking populations need instruments that have been validated in the indigenous languages. In this study we have tried to review the literature on the status of cross-cultural and/or criterion validity of all the questionnaires measuring psychiatric symptoms available in Urdu language. METHODS A se...

Kansei or Affective Engineering is a relatively new research field in the West. Linköping University in Sweden has been pioneering research and application within Kansei Engineering since 1999. Several companies have cooperated in different Kansei studies, for example Toyota/BT, Volvo, Saab, Scania. In some of the early studies, there were difficulties to apply the methodology. Reasons for this...