Plagiarism is a significant area of concern in higher education, given university students' high self-reported rates of plagiarism. However, research remains inconsistent in prevalence estimates and suggested precursors of plagiarism. This may be a function of the unclear psychometric properties of the measurement tools adopted. To investigate this, we modified an existing plagiarism scale (to ...

With computer simulations, we examined the performance of the Spearman-Kärber method for analyzing psychometric functions and compared this method with the standard technique of probit analysis. The Spearman-Kärber method was found to be superior in most cases. It generally yielded less biased and less variable estimates of the location and dispersion of a psychometric function, and it provided...

background and aim: dichotic digit test (ddt) is a valid neuropsychological tool for determining the dominant hemisphere in verbal processing; therefore, the main goal of this research was designing and investigating the psychometric properties of ddt in a sample of iranian children and then measuring its concurrent validity using the n-back task. methods: the present study was a descriptive an...

background: the awareness regarding the contribution of sexual self-concept to healthy sexual well-being is on a rise. the multidimensional sexual self-concept questionnaire (msscq) was developed to assess the 20 aspects related to sexual self-concept and has been widely applied in western societies. the adequacy of its application in iran has not been determined in order to guaranty its reliab...

We propose an answer to the “What is AI?” question, namely, that AI is really (or at least really ought in significant part to be) Psychometric AI (PAI). Along the way, we: set out and rebut five objections to PAI; describe PERI, a robot in our lab who exemplifies PAI; and briefly treat the future of Psychometric AI, first by pointing toward some promising PAI-based applications, and then by ra...

BACKGROUND Effective communication with health care providers has been found as relevant for physical and psychological health outcomes as well as the patients' adherence. However, the validity of the findings depends on the quality of the applied measures. This study aimed to provide an overview of measures of physician-patient communication and to evaluate the methodological quality of psycho...

A growing number of projects, many funded by the National Science Foundation, have begun to combine research in mathematics education with psychometric models. Promises of such research include: (a) new insight about the distribution of mathematical knowledge in large populations, (b) empirical links between teachers’ mathematical knowledge and students’ achievement, (c) the development of meas...

Psychometric scaling is widely used in the imaging filed for obtaining scale values of image quality and its attributes. Although widely used, scaling has its pitfalls and hazards. This paper reviews the process of scaling and provides some practical hints for conducting psychometric scaling studies and avoiding the most common hazards. The scaling process is described along with suggestions fo...

Study aiming to cross-culturally adapt the instrument Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ) and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version for nurses. The adaptation process followed the Process of Translation of World Health Organization. Data for the evaluation of the psychometric properties were collected in a teaching public hospital of Ribeirão Preto in 2011. T...

The aim of this study was to review and evaluate the psychometric properties of two general musculoskeletal outcome measures focusing on pediatric physical disability, namely, the Pediatric Outcomes Data Collection Instrument (PODCI) and the Activities Scales for Kids (ASK). Although this review reveals the psychometric superiority of ASK to PODCI, further research should confirm the psychometr...