In my previous blog post, I noted that reliability and validity are two essential properties of psychological measurement. Measures of intelligence, personality, vocational interests, and so forth ...

OBJECTIVE: We studied the validity and reproducibility of a new abdominal ultrasound protocol for the assessment of intra-abdominal adipose tissue. MEASUREMENTS: Intra-abdominal adipose tissue was ...

The validity of two lifestyle typologies, SRI's Values and Lifestyles system and the Lastovicka et al. Drinking-Driving typology, are examined empirically. Each typology is measured by three methods.

Assessment has always been an important part of learning but lately, we’ve grown to rely on quizzes and tests that are artificial, expensive, single-purpose, uninformative, and inequitable. Our ...

Continuity of care is essential to the clinician/patient relationship within family medicine. However, researchers have few ways to track continuity of care as a measurement of clinical quality.

Building on philosophy of science literature and two original studies, this paper argues for the necessity of incorporating all three portions of Wood's (1991) theoretical model of corporate social ...