Sentence examples for item specificity from inspiring English sources

However, it has been reported that item specificity seems to matter.

High correlations among very different symptoms might suggest an actual syndrome, a "response set" (e.g., the tendency to respond identically to all items) or lack of item specificity.

Half of the words came from word List A and half from List B in order to test item specificity of training effects.

Such findings may in part reflect a proximity effect, but Borsari & Carey [ 4] showed that item specificity with respect to drinking behaviour also made a difference.

The corrected total-item correlation, as an indicator of item specificity, ranged between 0.55 0.75, with a trivial floor score of 0.4% and a ceiling effect of 8.7%.

We believe this is important because hub proponents have claimed that greater item specificity leads to greater anterior temporal lobe activation (Tyler et al. 2004; Rogers et al. 2006).

The authors examined item-specificity of the trained items across each block.

Similar item-specificity has been observed in training case-studies by Lacey et al. (2010) and Friedman and Lott (2000).

We also found that the level of alertness and fluctuation items drove specificity to delirium, while the AMT4 (orientation) and Months Backwards (attention) items drove sensitivity to delirium.

The measures are scored based on the presence of a specific item and the specificity and action-orientation of language.

For example, many survey items lack specificity and use jargon, vague language, unclear frames of reference and double barreled questions.