In IESMR, each item is evaluated by a set of requirements present in checklists.
Each survey item was evaluated by the participant on a five-point scale from 1 (rarely or never true) to 5 (almost always or always true).
Each item was evaluated by three to six subjects who by protocol varied by gender, age (older than 65/65+) and race, and included at least one person with less than a high school education.
The specificity of each item was evaluated by investigating if that particular behaviour was present or not at TC, moment without pain, in all observations from all evaluators, in all animals from all groups.
Each item is evaluated by the participant on two 6-point Likert scales ranging from 'very dissatisfied' (1) to 'very satisfied' (6) or 'not important' (1) to 'very important' (6).
The maintained 133 items were evaluated by a graduate professor of mathematics education with 30 years of professional experience.
In a second step, items were evaluated by three psychologists including the lecturer-in-charge, all three experts in Holland's theory and RIASEC.
Items were evaluated by 81 professionals (13 Judges, 9 Prosecutors, 21 Social Workers, 17 Psychologists and 20 Teachers) belonging to several organizations in the Lisbon area that work with youth at-risk and involved in deviance.
Items were evaluated by Item Characteristics Curves, Category Probability Curves and, if possible, Differential Item Functioning analyses.
Individual items were evaluated by examination of patterns of response options and missing or not interpretable responses.
