Sentence examples for scale ceiling from inspiring English sources

At the item level, the ACTS Burdens scale ceiling effects ranged from 37%to77%7%.

Patients with initial pain levels of zero and ten are excluded because scale ceiling and floor values can only allow changes in one direction and this has the potential to skew the results.

This can be explained by the majority participants with high percentages in the extreme values of the scale (ceiling effect), which is recommended to include much more response categories rather than dichotomous response [ 8, 41].

Thus, if the researcher's interest lies primarily in the upper end of the MHC-SF scale ceiling effects could be problematic particularly for respondents in Grade 8, as ceiling effects were more pronounced among the youngest.

Here, full-scale ceiling jet tests with a flat unconfined ceiling were conducted.

In the other dimension scales, ceiling and floor effects were lower than 15% (Table 2).

For each scale, the ceiling and floor effects were examined.

On the scale level, ceiling and floor effects should be less than 20% in order to assume that the scale is capturing the full range of potential responses in the population [ 27].

The descriptive statistics for the acceptability assessment of the questionnaire showed a good distribution of the response choices on the scale level, ceiling and floor effects were low and within hypothesized limits with only few exceptions.

The latter is of course related to the number of items (only 3) in that scale since ceiling effects per single item of the emotional well-being subscale were not any more pronounced than items of the other subscales.

All floor effects were < 15% except for two PF items with the limited answering options (both items are on a 3-point scale) but ceiling effects for some items (item/items of PF, RP, BP, RE and SF) were >15%.