Alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. These approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996). The present study tries to ex...

Many rating scales have been applied to the evaluation of dystonia, but only few have been assessed for clinimetric properties. The Movement Disorders Society commissioned this task force to critique existing dystonia rating scales and place them in the clinical and clinimetric context. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify rating scales that have either been validated or use...

The trend of social information processing sees e-commerce and social web applications increasingly relying on user-generated content, such as rating, to determine the quality of objects and to generate recommendations for users. In a rating system, a set of reviewers assign to a set of objects different types of scores based on specific evaluation criteria. In this paper, we seek to determine,...

BACKGROUND DSM-5 sees the introduction of Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder (SPCD), characterized by persistent difficulties using verbal and nonverbal communication for social purposes, in the absence of restricted and repetitive interests and behaviours. There is currently much confusion about the precise diagnostic criteria for SPCD and how this disorder relates to autism spectrum di...

This paper analyzes seven conceptual frameworks on information quality along six criteria in two dimensions in order to identify common elements, differences, and missing components of such frameworks. The frameworks are evaluated according to analytic (or scientific) criteria and pragmatic (or operational) criteria. The analytic criteria are based on academic standards and require clear defini...

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is the most widely used prediction technique in Recommendation System (RS). Most of the current CF recommender systems maintains single criteria user rating in user-item matrix. However, recent studies indicate that recommender system depending on multi-criteria can improve prediction and accuracy levels of recommendation by considering the user preferences in multi...

Quantitative explorations of behaviour, psyche and society are common in psychology. This requires methods that justify the attribution results to measurands (the entities be measured, e.g., individuals) make results' quantitative meaning publicly interpretable (e.g., for decision making). Do rating scales—psychology's primary generate numerical data—meet these criteria? article summarises sele...

There is a broad spectrum of sleep disturbances observed in Parkinson's disease (PD). A variety of scales have been applied to the evaluation of PD sleep and wakefulness, but only a small number have been assessed specifically for clinimetric properties in the PD population. The movement disorder society has commissioned this task force to examine these scales and to assess their use in PD. A s...