Studies addressing the content validity using validating inventories are scarce in the field of portfolio assessment [ 14- 16] [Michels NRM, Remmen R, Denekens J, van Rossum H, De Winter BY.
Degree of handedness was assessed using a widely used and validated inventory [ 24].
We followed best practices in designing and validating the inventory (Garvin-Doxas et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2008; Adams and Wieman, 2010).
Validated inventory questions were presented one at a time as PowerPoint slides to students during their second-to-last lecture of the term; students recorded their answers on multiple-choice answer sheets.
Although developing and validating concept inventories is a time-consuming and costly undertaking, a validated concept inventory is extremely useful as a diagnostic tool for instructors, as well as for assessing any activity introduced into a course to enhance student learning.
We also validated the inventory in terms of content with eight experts from UBC with research and teaching experience in genetics and molecular and cell biology.
Common mental disorders were measured with the 12-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), which is a well validated screening inventory for non-psychotic mental disorders and is widely used in population surveys [ 16, 40].
In order to create and validate an inventory that shows good psychometric properties, the patients in the present study were instructed to indicate to what extent each of the 80 assertions corresponded to their current state ("at this moment, currently"), using a 5-point Likert scale, from 1: "strongly disagree" to 5: "strongly agree".
27 This study also addressed the question of whether the benefits experienced by women on duloxetine may be due to treatment of underlying depressive symptoms, by using a validated depression inventory as an outcome measure; this demonstrated no significant change in depressive symptoms after treatment with either duloxetine or placebo.
The purpose of this research was to validate a shelf inventory and evaluate food purchases using the inventory among older adults with diabetes.
