A further danger inherent in using a psychometric approach in cross-cultural settings is that an assumption may be made by researchers that items and constructs developed and standardized on one particular cultural group are broadly universal when in fact there is no attempt made to demonstrate the applicability of the constructs or instruments used to new groups (see McInerney et al. 2001).
An inherent danger in using instruments in other cultural settings is the assumption made by researchers that items and constructs developed and standardized on one particular cultural group are broadly universal when in fact there is no attempt made to demonstrate the applicability of the constructs or instruments used to new groups (see McInerney et al. 2001).
We have constructed and tested a novel, standardized, and simple device with a standardized measurement protocol for the heel rise test and demonstrated its excellent reliability.
Semivariograms of all properties were constructed, standardized, and compared to estimate the spatial variability of the soil properties in the area.
The emotional support scale was constructed by standardizing and then averaging across the relevant item scores.
Transformations between each bone's 3D position and anatomical axes were determined from the CT-based bone models using custom software (based on Open Inventor 5.0, Mercury Computer Systems, Chelmsford, Mass, USA) that was developed to locate specific anatomical landmarks and construct standardized anatomical coordinate systems (Figure 1) [17].
PSH constructed, screened the library and sequenced positive clones; developed and standardized majority of the markers; validated and analyzed the data; drafted the manuscript.
Standardized testing drives standardized curricula and standardized pacing.
To control for baseline severity a composite measure is constructed out of standardized baseline values of: # axis-I disorders, # axis-II disorders, ADP-4 trait sum score, ADP-4 distress sum score, SCL-90, GAF, SOFAS, disability status (biographical variable).
The enrollment status question was constructed to standardize the various institutions' use of semesters, trimesters, and quarters into 1st, 2nd or 3rd year.
Below we describe the items and standardized scales that were used to measure the constructs involved in the present study.
