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#Litmus #Validity

Core outcome sets are a strong tool to improve quality of and communication about research, but especially to align PRACTICE and research. A #COS for #depression has the potential to move the dial considerably:
https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(25)00452-4/fulltext
#GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth

The PROCEED study identified outcomes for #depression that matter to patients, caregivers, #healthcare professionals, an excellent read:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32711710/

#Psychometrics #ContentValidity #Validity @philosophy
@eikofried

Ugh. It's not done, yet.

The "enthusiasm" item feels like it's halfway to the "flair" interaction in Office Space. Force an undefined sufficient level of enthusiasm or lose your job.

"Command of the class" ?! This is offensive to me, at a gut level. I don't want to "maintain command" of any class. I'm there to teach. Students are there to learn. If neither of those continues to be true, we do something else. If behavior in the class makes learning difficult I might ask someone to change their behavior or--in extreme situations--ask them to leave (and in one or two instances I have left). I'm not trying to control others' behavior. I'm in a learning situation that is mutually beneficial; if it stops being that way, we stop doing it, that's all. My philosophy of higher ed (to the extent I have one) has no place for me to be an authority figure in any way beyond simply knowing some things others don't.

How do you treat all students with respect in a lecture? How do you even have an interaction with each student that allows for the possibility? Why is "respect for students" the only item about an instructor's interpersonal attitude or orientation toward students? I would expect something else, like dedication to their learning, commitment to providing them with an effective educational opportunity, recognition of their inherent worth as humans, etc. Of course the "respect" language is probably a shove toward the customer service model of higher ed, but it also feels like a slide toward "dominance" language (the number of times I've heard some thin-skinned blowhard demand "respect"...).

How does "maintaining command of a class" fit with "treating students with respect"? I don't feel respected by people who want to control me, and neither should students.

The final message, of course, is that I'm burnt out and have little desire to be part of the administrative system being increasingly worked into all cracks and crevices in the university experience at my school.

#highered #professor #teaching #psychometrics #assessment #validity #educorporate

I'm doing a peer evaluation of an excellent colleague's teaching. The form we have gives me some thoughts. Not always happy thoughts.

As a psych researcher I have to wonder, first: how valid are these categories for "good teaching?" I suspect nobody ever checked anything like #reliability or #validity for this, but just went with "it seems OK to me." Essentially, this is kind of a psychometric nightmare.

Second, as someone who has had a few friends and acquaintances, and who has been Very Online, and specifically on #Mastodon for a few years... what the fuck?

We're going to potentially deny tenure to people who don't have "appropriate" eye contact? Who don't "use gestures and move in the classroom effectively"? What do either of those mean? What is "appropriate" eye contact? Who has studied optimal classroom-moving strategies or gestures? (Note: Somebody might have, but I don't know what those are, and I suspect nobody in my department does).

#Autistic people, people from any #culture with different norms about eye contact, people with different background experiences regarding how to lecture, how to move, how to... gesture (?!) are potentially disadvantaged here. Okay, realistically nobody here knows what "appropriate" or "effectively" means in any valid sense, so they will go with their gut, base things on their own experiences, and give a rating.

This might be a small thing, but this is one of many examples of how less-valid #assessment opens the door to personal biases.

#highered #professor #psychometrics

A #SysReview of quality of life and #HRQoL instruments used in trials of interventions for adults with alcohol use disorder:
https://www.jsatjournal.com/article/S2949-8759(25)00172-9/fulltext

One of the interesting findings:
Although the team focused on the most frequently used instruments they found only very few studies reporting psychometric properties in this population.

This mirrors findings from our broader #SysReview of #HRQL as an outcome in substance and behavioural addictions
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37439397/

#Psychometrics #Validity

Jio offers free calls, data, and validity extensions to prepaid users in flood-affected J&K, Ladakh & Himachal. Postpaid users get a 3-day grace period. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/jio-relief-measures-flood-jk-ladakh-himachal-ctnev7r7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Jio #freecalls #data #validity #JammuKashmirFlood

#statstab #408 Factor analysis: Overrated, Misused, But Still Useful

Thoughts: Some scholars favour CFA over EFA, but this post reverses that perspective. Do you agree?

#factoranalysis #cfa #efa #psychometrics #validity #mesurement

https://esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#MARCH25BK

#Development #Quizzes
Email is easy · Everyone knows what an email address is, right? https://ilo.im/1667co

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#Business #Email #EmailAddress #Validity #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

Left to Right Programming: Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed

https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming

#HackerNews #Left #to #Right #Programming #Programming #Languages #Validity #Software #Development

Valid, But Meaningless? - Simon Blackburn and Alex O Connor

#premise #premises #validity #syllogism

Am I correct in assessing that #Senderscore.org is essentially a shakedown operation to get people to hire #Validity?

My #validity ended when I turned 36.

Improving Numerical Measures of Human Feelings: The Case of Pain https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lan:wpaper:421926304&r=&r=exp
"… proposed and validated a new method to measure the experienced intensity of acute pain across individuals. This method proved to be overwhelmingly more accurate and sensitive than standard, established methods for experimentally-induced acute pain which are used in medical, clinical and research applications
… In the case of experienced pain intensity, the mechanism that enables the new #measurement method to excel might indeed be rooted in its well-calibrated scale: #money.
… Money-free standard methods ask people for numerical estimations of their experiences without a benchmark for the numerical scale, which might lead them to choose salient numbers or intermediate values.
… Monetary amounts provide interpersonally comparable references and thereby reduce the intrinsic subjectivity in pain measurements.
… The use of monetary incentives is unproblematic for those applications, as it is already common practice to reward participation in them"
#ExperimentalEcon #calibration #validity #interpersonalComparison

Using career assessments from other countries
The values of New Zealander’s may mean that international psychometric test validity may not be so valid here: so why use them? Read more at https://www.samyoung.co.nz/2025/04/using-career-assessments-from-other.html
#testing #validity #culture #Aotearoa #career

Ah ben la dernière, c'est #Validity qui veut du pognon.

Donc, pour désactiver ces parasites dans #spamassassin :

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Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker !

Answer today the fields of #technology have a lot of uncertainty for that we’re seeing a lot of #validity in the #market #ai

This integrates nicely into my upcoming methods course in the #DundeeUni Professional Doctorate and my work on core outcome sets.

#RD62001 #Validity #HealthSciences #PhilSky #Interdisciplinary

HT @flourn0

#statstab #258 What's wrong with rating scales?

Thoughts: A scathing review of "scales" in Psychology. But, can be a useful paper for students to get a sense of experiment and survey design, and #psychometrics.

#measurement #psychology #scales #ordinal #likert #validity #language #personality #replication

https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spc3.12740

The more people see anything in debates and the media, the more common people will think it is an issue, if no research is done beyond what is brought to attention.

#cisgender #folks #debating the #validity of #transgender #people in #massmedia & #politics

#statstab #245 Seaboat - organize your evaluation of research

Thoughts: Useful to structuring your peer review. Considers construct, statistical, internal, and external validities.

#shiny #peerreview #metascience
#tool #review #validity #statistics
https://www.seaboat.io/