background to assess maternal confidence in her ability to cope with labor, a measure of childbirth self efficacy is necessary. objectives this paper aims to assess the cultural adaptation and psychometric testing of the short form of childbirth self-efficacy inventory among iranian pregnant women. patients and methods in this descriptive-methodological study, we investigated 383 iranian pregna...

Spirituality is an important aspect in the process of building individual's soul and life. All success excellence human life stems from spiritual aspect. Therefore, each individual needs to emphasize on himself order live right teachings. The study was conducted evaluate psychometric aspects spirituality assessment scale. questionnaire containing 20 these items used assess individual. involved ...

PURPOSE To review the concepts of reliability and validity, provide examples of how the concepts have been used in nursing research, provide guidance for improving the psychometric soundness of instruments, and report suggestions from editors of nursing journals for incorporating psychometric data into manuscripts. METHODS CINAHL, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO databases were searched using key words:...

This paper examines the current growth in psychometric testing for recruitment, and the degree to which it reflects dissatisfaction with formal qualifications in the general education and/or vocational sectors, changes in skill needs, or other non-education related factors. It is a companion piece to Jenkins (2001) which reviews the evidence on levels of test use and confirms that there has bee...

This study aims to illustrate an overarching psychometric approach of broad relevance to investigations of two sources of construct-relevant psychometric multidimensionality present in many complex multidimensional instruments that are routinely used in psychological and educational research. These two sources of construct-relevant psychometric multidimensionality are related to: (a) the fallib...

The focus of the study is on the assessment of readability for prevailing America and Chinese English textbooks with the measurement software and systems. The result indicated college reading textbooks produced by Chinese publishers seemed to vary in level, with some texts above the reading ability of most college students. Then simplification strategies used to make Chinese EFL reading texts m...