A detailed description of scale development was provided including: initial item pool generation by the author based on clinical expertise and literature in body psychotherapy, body work therapy and allied fields; and testing for face and content validity by students and body work practitioners.
Description of scale development and preliminary analysis of psychometric characteristics (internal reliability, factor structure), based on a large dataset of routinely collected GPAQ surveys (n = 190,038 responses to the consultation version of GPAQ and 20,309 responses to the postal version) from practices in the United Kingdom during the 2005 6 contract year.
Archytas is giving mathematical descriptions of scales actually in use; he arrived at his numbers in part by observation of the way in which musicians tuned their instruments (Barker 1989, 50 51).
The text by McDowell and Newell provides an excellent introduction to generic and condition-specific scales, including a description of various scales such as the SF-36 [ 2].
Table 1 Description of the scales of Smart Classroom Inventory (SCI) Scale name Scale description Sample items Physical design The extent to which the spatial area, furniture equipment, and information technology infrastructure of smart classrooms.
Responses were scored with equal weight and equal intervals between options and then transformed to a 0 100 rating scale (for more detailed description of the scales se Rugulies et al [ 42] and Kristensen et al. [ 43]).
I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking, which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
A description of the scales selected for this paper is provided in Table 3. * Resulting scale not formally validated.
Based on the answers in the Student Questionnaire (for a detailed description of these scales, see Martin and Mullis 2012), a general index of each student's socio-economic status was created.
Description of psychological scales used in the included studies.
