Initially I got very few responses but after a while I secured two internships with a local newspaper and a regional magazine.
Rasch analysis indicated that all of the fit residuals for items in each of the two models fell within the acceptable range (≥ − 3.0 and ≤ 3.0); however, several of the response categories were not ordered correctly, primarily due to very few responses for "rarely" and "mild" categories.
For all the times I've pitched articles about the country, very few responses have been positive (although possibly my fault).
When combined, the other countries (Britain/UK, India, Mexico, Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, China, Estonia, France, Philippines, Poland and Switzerland and unspecified countries in Europe) accounted for very few responses.
In rural sites access problems predominated, while in urban sites more mothers cited parental carelessness or lack of awareness (except in Haripur with very few responses from rural sites).
For variables that were not in numeric form, a percentage agreement was estimated because these variables tended to have more than five categories and therefore there were very few responses within each category.
The five-point Likert scale for 'psychological exposure' variables was collapsed to two categories: (i) "much better", "better" or "the same", and (ii) "worse" or "much worse", as there were very few responses in the "much better", and "better" category or in the "much worse" category.
In parallel with being poorly represented in state standards (Table 1), assessment questions related to the concepts of gene expression (concept 8) and differential gene expression (concepts 9 and 10) elicited very few responses indicative of complete understan ding by grade 12 students on the 2000 NAEP (2006; Table 3).
