If researchers are able to identify and assess license-exempt programs in their child care quality analyses, accounting for this important characteristic will reduce measurement error, and effect sizes may increase for other variables that enable examination of relationships between child care quality and child outcomes.
Although detecting violations of local independence is quite difficult, some statistical methods have been developed for this purpose, that enable examination of such "local item dependence" in practice, e.g. Douglas, Kim, Habing, and Gao [ 18], Ip [ 19, 20] or Hoskens and De Boeck [ 21].
The study of microscale factors allows for a more fine-grained examination of the environmental features that enable or inhibit physical activity and may be more cost effectively and easily modified than macro characteristics.
More platforms that enable others.
Educational programs that enable CMs to experience direct contact with clients/families may have a positive impact on CM confidence; this also deserves further examination and study.
The quicker ISIs may point toward an increased 'perceptual span' [43] or 'visual lobe' [44] that enables examination of a greater number of items in each saccade, however, additional experiments would be required to confirm this claim.
Other recent projects – like GiftedMom, an increasingly popular local app that sends healthcare to pregnant women, or Cardio Pad, a touch-screen medical tablet that enables heart examinations such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) to be performed at remote locations – are more obvious in their social purpose.
The present study provides a robust experimental protocol and an analysis methodology that enables such examinations at the cellular level and can thus be seen as an important step to examine changes in cell specific gene expression profiles over time, as for example in identified neurons after spinal cord injury or during development.
Further advances were made with the development of the otoscope, an instrument that enabled visual examination of the tympanic membrane (eardrum).
In contrast to the CTT approach, the Rasch model provides an alternative scaling methodology that enables the examination of the hierarchical structure, unidimensionality and additivity of HRQOL measures.
