Assessment centers (ACs) are one of the most common selection and recruitment methods in today’s business world, with very high acceptance practice. The AC research literature, however, has focused on managerial performance neglected sales performance. Therefore, we assessed features ACs for positions. results indicated that ratings designed positions exhibited good interrater agreement were di...

BACKGROUND There is limited availability of context-specific physical activity questionnaires in low and middle income countries. The aim of this study was to develop and examine the validity of a new Indian physical activity questionnaire, the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parent Study Physical Activity Questionnaire (APCAPS-PAQ). METHODS The current study was conducted with the cohort from th...

Introduction: Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is used for the evaluation of the clinical competence in medicine for which it is essential to measure validity and reliability. This study aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of OSCE for residents of obstetrics and gynecology at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences in 2011. Methods: A descriptive-correlation stud...

The main purpose of the present meta-analysis was to examine the scientific literature on the criterion-related validity of sit-and-reach tests for estimating hamstring and lumbar extensibility. For this purpose relevant studies were searched from seven electronic databases dated up through December 2012. Primary outcomes of criterion-related validity were Pearson´s zero-order correlation coeff...

In game theory, there are two social interpretations of rewards (payoffs) for decision-making strategies: (1) the interpretation based on the utility criterion derived from expected utility theory and (2) the interpretation based on the quantitative criterion (amount of gain) derived from validity in the empirical context. A dynamic decision theory has recently been developed in which dynamic u...

BACKGROUND The objective was to determine the test-retest reliability and criterion validity of the Physical Activity Scale for Individuals with Physical Disabilities (PASIPD). METHODS Forty-five non-wheelchair dependent subjects were recruited from three Dutch rehabilitation centers. Subjects' diagnoses were: stroke, spinal cord injury, whiplash, and neurological-, orthopedic- or back disord...

800x600 normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: this study’s aim was to design and validate a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (ffq) for assessment of fruits and vegetables (fv) consumption in adults of isfahan by comparing the ffq with dietary reference method and blood plasma levels of beta-carotene, vitamin c, and retinol. methods: t...

Discriminant validity assessment has become a generally accepted prerequisite for analyzing relationships between latent variables. For variance-based structural equation modeling, such as partial least squares, the FornellLarcker criterion and the examination of cross-loadings are the dominant approaches for evaluating discriminant validity. By means of a simulation study, we show that these a...