PART C: INTERNAL VALIDITY AND CONTEXTUAL ISSUES
Using internal validity measures to compare clustering algorithms
... + C(E)) with k the number of tried parameter combinations, C(A) the complexity of one run of algorithm A and C(E) the complexity of evaluating the quality of one partition using evaluation measure ...
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Internal Validity of Project MATCH Treatments Discriminability and Integrity
... Working alliance. The multiple-groups profile analysis for the Task, Bond, and Goal scales (again considered simultaneously) of the client version of the WAI-C suggested little variability across Project MATCH ...
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Validity of the Contextual Competence Scale for Engineering Students
... as part of their study judged new hires as inadequately prepared to understand how a variety of contexts shape, and might be shaped by, engineering solutions (Lattuca et ...on contextual competence than ...
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Physical activity promotion in Latin American populations: a systematic review on issues of internal and external validity
... external validity items according to the RE-AIM framework, while the tool employed by Hoehner and colleagues focused did not employ the full RE-AIM ...external validity factors is needed ...
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Unifying SoTL methodology: Internal and external validity
... ethical issues associated with this approach: if I believe I have a superior method, is it ethical to teach one group of students using the seemingly inferior method in order to satisfy the methodological gods ...
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Internal contextual factors influencing the extent of environmental disclosure
... Based on the findings of these studies, it can be argued that the existence of an environmental committee is likely to impact the extensiveness, quality, quantity and completeness of reporting. It also indicates a ...
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Social validity of a contextual behavioral science-based intervention for retirement education
... Intervention development is part of the research cycle of prevention and promotion in mental health (Murta & Santos, 2015). The cycle may be divided into seven stages (Muñoz, Mrazek, & Haggerty, 1996) ...
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Validity issues of variation order in construction contracts
... 5 situation whereas variation request by the contractor due to internal reason, any cost incurred shall bear by the contractor. Many reason were identify which permitted for variation order (VO) includes increase ...
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Views on Internal and External Validity in Empirical Software Engineering
... A. Internal Validity There is a possible selection bias, as it may be that only those program-committee and editorial-board members responded who have experience with empirical ...between internal ...
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Evaluation of the internal construct validity of the Personal Care Participation Assessment and Resource Tool (PC PART) using Rasch analysis
... Stage three of the analysis involved forming alternative PC-PART item groupings using the ICF as the theoret- ical framework a-priori to further analysis. PC-PART items were linked to ICF categories using ...
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Interventions to improve physical activity during pregnancy: a systematic review on issues of internal and external validity using the RE-AIM framework
... weight gain in women at high risk of gestational diabetes: A randomized controlled trial. The Blossom Project Online: Use of a behaviorally-based website to 607[r] ...
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Interventions to improve physical activity during pregnancy: a systematic review on issues of internal and external validity using the RE-AIM framework
... Community-based program for exercise promotion in pregnancy; Frequency and duration: Eight weekly (once per week for 8 weeks) group activity session of 60- 75 minutes in duration. E[r] ...
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Ethics and internal audit: whistleblowing issues
... ethical issues of ...is part of the theoretical trend (curentul teoretic) of ...is part of individual life and can be analyzed after Aristotle, for whom moral principles can not be fully explained by ...
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Ethics and internal audit: whistleblowing issues
... ethical issues of ...is part of the theoretical trend (curentul teoretic) of ...is part of individual life and can be analyzed after Aristotle, for whom moral principles can not be fully explained by ...
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Are citizens ‘receiving the treatment?’ Assessing the validity of contextual theories of public opinion and political behavior.
... several issues that plague contextual theories and analyses; for example, the selection of the appropriate geographic unit of analysis ...facing contextual research pertains to the validity of ...
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How do contextual issues influence socially accountable medical schools?
... Community engagement in communities of place The nature of a place-based community offered the opportunity to engage with the school in rural communities. Rural based academics said that there were “hundreds” ...
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Basics Statistics Critical Thinking Test : Reliability and Validity Issues
... This reliability process begins by administering pilot studies on instruments. 31 samples were involved during the process of reliability testing of critical thinking skills. The sample size for pilot study was selected ...
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Internal and contextual factors, knowledge processes and performance: From the Chinese provider's perspective
... Questionnaire surveys were conducted within 13 participant companies involving 200 respondents. A questionnaire (in both Chinese and English language for each question) was designed collaboratively by the major ...
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Randomized Field Trials and Internal Validity: Not So Fast My Friend
... “equating” of pretest differences (National Research Council, 2004). The emphasis is on determining the causal link between interventions, such as programs, curricula, or materials, and student performance. It is the ...
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Reliability and validity of a new scale on internal coherence (ICS) of cancer patients
... second part of the ...ond part of the study, we used a 1-side Wilcoxon test for measuring chemotherapy sensitivity of the scale because of clear hypothesis that ICS scores will decrease during chemotherapy ...
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