background and purpose: of the significant processes for educational quality promotion is to evaluate the teachers' competency.this study has been conducted with the goal for designing and psychometric the measure for determining the professional competence of nursing faculty members. methods: the present research is the qualitative part of a sequential exploratory combined study of the co...

OBJECTIVE To confirm the reliability and validity of a previously validated evaluation instrument in a new context. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, the processes and results of testing Cooking Matters' (CM) use of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program's Behavior Checklist as a retrospective pretest/posttest were described. The researchers determined reliability, face and conte...

An important criterion for developing animal models to study psychopathology involves establishing the validity of the model as a true representation of the process being studied. Generally, three types of validity are applied to animal models: face validity, construct validity, and predictive validity (1–3). Face validity refers to the outward similarity in appearance between the model and the...

objectives: mothers’ perception of their ability to parenting (maternal parenting self-efficacy) is a critical issue that influences their interactions with their preterm neonates. for better support of these mothers, a robust tool is needed which can measure mothers’ perception of their ability to understand and care for their preterm neonates as well as being sensitive to the various levels a...

The goal of this study was to establish face, content, and construct validity of NOViSE-the first force-feedback enabled virtual reality (VR) simulator for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). Fourteen surgeons and surgical trainees performed 3 simulated hybrid transgastric cholecystectomies using a flexible endoscope on NOViSE. Four of them were classified as "NOTES experts...

objectives : bayley scales of infant & toddler development is a well-known diagnostic developmental assessment tool for children aged 1–42 months. our aim was investigating validity & reliability of this scale in persian speaking children. materials & methods: the method was descriptive-analytic. translation- back translation and cultural adaptation was done. content & face validity of tranlate...