PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of family members' responses to open-ended interview questions about an intervention to improve incontinence and mobility care for their relative in a nursing home. DESIGN AND METHODS The study was a randomized, controlled intervention trial with incontinent nursing home residents (N = 145), wherein research staff provided toil...

Open-ended questions, which allow patients to discuss their concerns freely, are widely considered an efficient method gathering medical information from patients during a medical interview. However, few studies have examined the relationship between the use of open-ended questions and the amount of information obtained from patients during the medical interview. This study examines this relati...

This research develops three text analytic techniques to improve survey questionnaires. The first is open-ended response mining. Narrative responses on a survey are mined for themes then used to develop new questions. Closed-ended responses identify subgroups who agree/disagree with the question. Then open-ended responses examined for systematic differences which suggest new constructs that dis...

BACKGROUND Written assessments fall into two classes: constructed-response or open-ended questions, such as the essay and a number of variants of the short-answer question, and selected-response or closed-ended questions; typically in the form of multiple-choice. It is widely believed that constructed response written questions test higher order cognitive processes in a manner that multiple-cho...

The purpose of this paper is to present a framework based on text-mining techniques support teachers in their tasks grading texts, compositions, or essays, which form the answers open-ended questions (OEQ). approach assumes that OEQ must be used as learning and evaluation instrument with increasing frequency. Given time-consuming process for those questions, large-scale use only possible when c...