Sentence examples for items were tested for from inspiring English sources

Questionnaire items were tested for reliability using Cronbach's alpha, which measures the internal consistency reliability coefficient.

Then, different 'additive or multiplicative' combinations of items were tested for sensitivity and specificity.

Items were tested for differential item functioning (DIF) to check if items functioned in the same way across all subgroups.

In the last phase of constructing this questionnaire, all the remaining items were tested for validity and reliability.

Each was graded by the experts to a level of work instability, and then items were tested for their ability to discriminate across these levels.

Finally, items were tested for differential item functioning (DIF) across educational level (junior high vs. senior high), gender (female vs. male), HBV (positive vs. negative), HCV (positive vs. negative), and HIV (positive vs. negative).

"All of those items were tested [for the presence of blood] and were negative," the expert testified.

Responses for individual items were tested where appropriate for scale reliability.

The criteria items were tested again by three assessors for another 25 videos.

We searched databases from 1980 to 2006 for English language, HIV-specific, self-reported questionnaires consisting of at least two items that were tested for reliability and validity.

Individual items of C-AES were tested for association with whether patients were subjected to "objective coercive measures" by Spearman rank correlation.