The purpose of this work in progress paper is to report on the method development of the Shared Priorities measure to include content analysis, as a way of gaining a deeper understanding of team work in crisis/emergency response. An experiment is reported where the performance of six trained teams is compared with the performance of six non-trained teams. The experiment was performed using an e...

We investigate the long-standing puzzle on the underpricings of convertible bonds. We hypothesize that the observed underpricing is induced by the possibility that a convertible bond might renegotiate on some of its covenants, e.g., an imbedded put option, in financial difficulties. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the initial underpricing is larger for lower rated bonds. The underp...

This validation study examined principals’ evaluation ratings of teachers made on an instrument adapted from the Danielson Framework for Teaching and used in the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada in 2012/13. Principals used a four-point rating scale to rate teachers on 22 teaching components. The teaching components were expected to measure four different dimensions of teaching. The...

N ABSTRACT In order to identify antecedents of infant's tcompliance,with motherst'directionS.on how to solve fo0 task$ (graded, in terms of"stressfulneds to the infant) , 194 Eigh-fisk mothers and their 2-year old child -ea, were observed om,vide6tape and assessed with .a six ;point rating scale. Data collected prenatally and, postnatally at' 3, 6, 12 and months of age were used in' multiple re...

The reliability of the fuzzy scale for assessing the responses of a person in an opinion questionnaire (which is usually treated as a Likert-type questionnaire) is analyzed. Thus, a comparison between a classical Likert scale-based questionnaire and its fuzzy rating scale-based version in terms of their reliability is established. For this purpose, some questions of the Grasha-Riechmann student...

This paper describes a first step towards the automatic classification of prominence (as defined by naive listeners). As a result of a listening experiment each word in 500 sentences was marked with a rating scale between ‘0’ (non-prominent) and ‘10’ (very prominent). These prominence labels are compared with the following acoustical features: loudness of each vowel, and F0 range and duration o...

The percentile-based rating scale P100 describes the citation impact in terms of the distribution of unique citation values. This approach has recently been refined by considering also the frequency of papers with the same citation counts. Here I compare the resulting P100’ with P100 for an empirical dataset and a simple fictitious model dataset. It is shown that P100’ is not much different fro...

Eight guidelines are suggested to aid the analyst in investigating whether rating scales categories are cooperating to produce observations on which valid measurement can be based. These guidelines are presented within the context of Rasch analysis. They address features of rating-scale-based data such as category frequency, ordering, rating-to-measure inferential coherence, and the quality of ...