Theresa J B Kline
Biographic Data
| ID | 5822252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theresa J B Kline |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theresa J B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kline |
| SIGNATURE | KLINE T J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6476-3846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The use of cognitive interviews to revise the Quality of Trauma Care Patient-Reported Experience Measure (QTAC-PREM)
Demographic, work-related, and life satisfaction predictors of northern social workers’ satisfaction with work and profession
Social workers in northern Canada were surveyed about work and professional satisfaction. Career commitment, turnover, and organizational citizenship predicted organizational satisfaction. Total satisfaction was associated with turnover. Research and theory in social work on remote communities should extend beyond characteristics of work, profession, and environment to include personal life factors
Scale Validation via Quantifying Item Validity Using the D m Index
While most validity indices are based on total test scores, this paper describes a method for quantifying the construct validity of items. The approach is based on the item selection technique originally described by Piazza in 1980. Unfortunately, Piazza's P2 index suffers from some substantial limitations. The Dm coefficient provides an alternative which can be used for item selection and provides a validity index for a set of items. The index i…
Predicting teleworker success: An exploration of personality, motivational, situational, and job characteristics
This study explored personality and motivational traits related to teleworker performance and satisfaction, including sociability, need for achievement and autonomy, diligence and organisation. Situational factors were also compared between teleworkers and non‐teleworkers, such as number of children, job autonomy and job complexity. Implications for research and practice are discussed
Four Multi-Item Interrater Agreement Options: Comparisons and Outcomes
This study compared four multi-item indices of interrater agreement: (a) intraclass correlation coefficient, (b) within-group interrater agreement, (c) modified within-group interrater agreement, and (d) average deviation index. Findings included (a) that the different indices of interrater agreement provided different information about the agreement across raters, (b) standards for acceptable agreement are inconsistent for the several indices, (…
Four Multi-Item Interrater Agreement Options: Comparisons and Outcomes
Psychological Testing: A Practical Approach to Design and Evaluation
Preface The Assessment of Individuals: The Critical Role and Fundamentals of Measurement Measurement in the Physical Sciences Measurement in the Social Sciences Historical Highlights of Measurement Statistics Background The First Step: Identifying the Construct Links Between Constructs Construct Cleanliness Single versus Multiple Constructs Summary and Next Step Problems and Exercises Designing and Writing Items Empirical, Theoretical and Rationa…
Gender and Language Differences on the Test of Workplace Essential Skills: Using Overall Mean Scores and Item-Level Differential Item Functioning Analyses
The Test of Workplace Essential Skills (TOWES) assesses cognitive skills in three areas using the following three separate subscales: Reading Text, Document Use, and Numeracy inWorking-Age Adults. The sample was composed of 2,688 working-age Englishspeaking Canadians who came from a variety of settings (e.g., trades training programs, adult education centers, college programs, and athletic clubs). The relationships between subscale test performan…
Team Members' and Supervisors' Ratings of Team Performance: A Case of Inconsistency
Team Members' and Supervisors' Ratings of Team Performance: A Case of Inconsistency
This study used measures of team performance, organizational support, and supervisors' judgment to examine the consistency of ratings of teams by both their members as well as their supervisors. For 75 team members from 13 different work teams in different organizations Pearson correlation coefficients were used to assess the consistency of ratings of these measures within the teams and between teams and supervisors. The results indicate the need…
Team Members' and Supervisors' Ratings of Team Performance: A Case of Inconsistency
An Exploratory Study of Predicting Perceived Success and Survival of Small Businesses
Canadian White-Collar Workers' Views of Their Experience with Downsizing or Job Loss
Despite continuing bouts of downsizing in North America, there is relatively little literature on Canadian white-collar workers' experience of this kind of job loss. In the present context “downsizing” refers to nonperformance-based job loss, that is, job loss through restructuring, strategic planning, or other organizational initiatives wherein individuals lose their jobs through no fault of their own. From fall of 1992 and through the winter of…
Cooperativeness vs Competitiveness: Initial Findings regarding Effects on the Performance of Individual and Group Problem-Solving
Six mixed-gender groups ( n s = 3 to 5 each), comprised of either highly competitive (two groups), highly cooperative (two groups), or highly competitive and highly cooperative (two groups) individuals, participated. Participants first engaged in a cooperative problem-solving exercise and then completed an ill-structured problem, the Moon Survival Task, first on their own and then as a group. Analysis showed no differences in performance by indiv…
Refinement and Evaluation of the Decision-Making Questionnaire
The psychometric properties of the Decision-making Questionnaire which was designed to assess decision-making in an organizational context were investigated by administering the questionnaire to 54 undergraduate students. The dimensions measured are Effectiveness, Confidence, and Information used in making both tactical and strategic organizational decisions. The assessment of the Effectiveness scores consisted of examining item-to-total correlat…
Cooperativeness and Competitiveness: Dimensionality and Gender Specificity of the Classroom Life Instrument
A total of 240 (35 males and 195 females) undergraduate students completed a scale assessing competitiveness and cooperativeness. The results showed that cooperativeness and competitiveness are orthogonal characteristics, contrary to the popular notion that they fall on the ends of a single continuum. Secondly, the results showed that both competitiveness and cooperativeness are basically gender-neutral characteristics
Age, Cooperative vs Lecture Training, and Group Composition: Some Preliminary Findings of Effects on Performance
18 younger (under 25 years) and 18 older (over 39 years) undergraduate women were trained in problem-solving by either a cooperative or traditional lecture technique and in age-consistent, i.e., younger or older participants only, or mixed age, i.e., younger and older participants, groups. Analysis indicated that older subjects did not score as well on the problem-solving task (48.9 vs 43.9) where lower scores indicate better performance, particu…
Breaking the Frame: Film Language and the Experience of Limits
Ranging over the broad spectrum of contemporary literary and film theory, Breaking the Frame explores the different approaches to cinematic art that are offered by cognitive psychology, feminist theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. In this study Inez Hedges looks closely at films that challenge accepted norms in both form and content. The films discussed here, including Zazie, La Nuit de Varennes, and Interiors, break out of conventional frame…
Organizational Structure, Context, and Climate: Their Relationships to Job Satisfaction at Three Managerial Levels
Managers from 120 organizations (183 men and 27 women) from four major Canadian urban centers were surveyed about their job satisfaction. Seven aspects of job satisfaction were evaluated: satisfaction with the firm, pay, promotional opportunities, the job itself, other managers at the same level, immediate supervisor, and subordinates. Overall, managers at the highest level reported the most job satisfaction. For presidents, satisfaction was rela…
Demographic, work-related, and life satisfaction predictors of northern social workers’ satisfaction with work and profession
Social workers in northern Canada were surveyed about work and professional satisfaction. Career commitment, turnover, and organizational citizenship predicted organizational satisfaction. Total satisfaction was associated with turnover. Research and theory in social work on remote communities should extend beyond characteristics of work, profession, and environment to include personal life factors
Predicting teleworker success: An exploration of personality, motivational, situational, and job characteristics
This study explored personality and motivational traits related to teleworker performance and satisfaction, including sociability, need for achievement and autonomy, diligence and organisation. Situational factors were also compared between teleworkers and non‐teleworkers, such as number of children, job autonomy and job complexity. Implications for research and practice are discussed
Organizational Structure, Context, and Climate: Their Relationships to Job Satisfaction at Three Managerial Levels
Managers from 120 organizations (183 men and 27 women) from four major Canadian urban centers were surveyed about their job satisfaction. Seven aspects of job satisfaction were evaluated: satisfaction with the firm, pay, promotional opportunities, the job itself, other managers at the same level, immediate supervisor, and subordinates. Overall, managers at the highest level reported the most job satisfaction. For presidents, satisfaction was rela…
Organizational Structure, Context, and Climate: Their Relationships to Job Satisfaction at Three Managerial Levels
Managers from 120 organizations (183 men and 27 women) from four major Canadian urban centers were surveyed about their job satisfaction. Seven aspects of job satisfaction were evaluated: satisfaction with the firm, pay, promotional opportunities, the job itself, other managers at the same level, immediate supervisor, and subordinates. Overall, managers at the highest level reported the most job satisfaction. For presidents, satisfaction was rela…
Breaking the Frame: Film Language and the Experience of Limits
Ranging over the broad spectrum of contemporary literary and film theory, Breaking the Frame explores the different approaches to cinematic art that are offered by cognitive psychology, feminist theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. In this study Inez Hedges looks closely at films that challenge accepted norms in both form and content. The films discussed here, including Zazie, La Nuit de Varennes, and Interiors, break out of conventional frame…
Cooperativeness and Competitiveness: Dimensionality and Gender Specificity of the Classroom Life Instrument
A total of 240 (35 males and 195 females) undergraduate students completed a scale assessing competitiveness and cooperativeness. The results showed that cooperativeness and competitiveness are orthogonal characteristics, contrary to the popular notion that they fall on the ends of a single continuum. Secondly, the results showed that both competitiveness and cooperativeness are basically gender-neutral characteristics
Age, Cooperative vs Lecture Training, and Group Composition: Some Preliminary Findings of Effects on Performance
18 younger (under 25 years) and 18 older (over 39 years) undergraduate women were trained in problem-solving by either a cooperative or traditional lecture technique and in age-consistent, i.e., younger or older participants only, or mixed age, i.e., younger and older participants, groups. Analysis indicated that older subjects did not score as well on the problem-solving task (48.9 vs 43.9) where lower scores indicate better performance, particu…
Cooperativeness vs Competitiveness: Initial Findings regarding Effects on the Performance of Individual and Group Problem-Solving
Six mixed-gender groups ( n s = 3 to 5 each), comprised of either highly competitive (two groups), highly cooperative (two groups), or highly competitive and highly cooperative (two groups) individuals, participated. Participants first engaged in a cooperative problem-solving exercise and then completed an ill-structured problem, the Moon Survival Task, first on their own and then as a group. Analysis showed no differences in performance by indiv…
Refinement and Evaluation of the Decision-Making Questionnaire
The psychometric properties of the Decision-making Questionnaire which was designed to assess decision-making in an organizational context were investigated by administering the questionnaire to 54 undergraduate students. The dimensions measured are Effectiveness, Confidence, and Information used in making both tactical and strategic organizational decisions. The assessment of the Effectiveness scores consisted of examining item-to-total correlat…
Canadian White-Collar Workers' Views of Their Experience with Downsizing or Job Loss
Despite continuing bouts of downsizing in North America, there is relatively little literature on Canadian white-collar workers' experience of this kind of job loss. In the present context “downsizing” refers to nonperformance-based job loss, that is, job loss through restructuring, strategic planning, or other organizational initiatives wherein individuals lose their jobs through no fault of their own. From fall of 1992 and through the winter of…
An Exploratory Study of Predicting Perceived Success and Survival of Small Businesses
Team Members' and Supervisors' Ratings of Team Performance: A Case of Inconsistency
Team Members' and Supervisors' Ratings of Team Performance: A Case of Inconsistency
This study used measures of team performance, organizational support, and supervisors' judgment to examine the consistency of ratings of teams by both their members as well as their supervisors. For 75 team members from 13 different work teams in different organizations Pearson correlation coefficients were used to assess the consistency of ratings of these measures within the teams and between teams and supervisors. The results indicate the need…
Team Members' and Supervisors' Ratings of Team Performance: A Case of Inconsistency
Gender and Language Differences on the Test of Workplace Essential Skills: Using Overall Mean Scores and Item-Level Differential Item Functioning Analyses
The Test of Workplace Essential Skills (TOWES) assesses cognitive skills in three areas using the following three separate subscales: Reading Text, Document Use, and Numeracy inWorking-Age Adults. The sample was composed of 2,688 working-age Englishspeaking Canadians who came from a variety of settings (e.g., trades training programs, adult education centers, college programs, and athletic clubs). The relationships between subscale test performan…
Psychological Testing: A Practical Approach to Design and Evaluation
Preface The Assessment of Individuals: The Critical Role and Fundamentals of Measurement Measurement in the Physical Sciences Measurement in the Social Sciences Historical Highlights of Measurement Statistics Background The First Step: Identifying the Construct Links Between Constructs Construct Cleanliness Single versus Multiple Constructs Summary and Next Step Problems and Exercises Designing and Writing Items Empirical, Theoretical and Rationa…
Four Multi-Item Interrater Agreement Options: Comparisons and Outcomes
This study compared four multi-item indices of interrater agreement: (a) intraclass correlation coefficient, (b) within-group interrater agreement, (c) modified within-group interrater agreement, and (d) average deviation index. Findings included (a) that the different indices of interrater agreement provided different information about the agreement across raters, (b) standards for acceptable agreement are inconsistent for the several indices, (…
Four Multi-Item Interrater Agreement Options: Comparisons and Outcomes
Predicting teleworker success: An exploration of personality, motivational, situational, and job characteristics
This study explored personality and motivational traits related to teleworker performance and satisfaction, including sociability, need for achievement and autonomy, diligence and organisation. Situational factors were also compared between teleworkers and non‐teleworkers, such as number of children, job autonomy and job complexity. Implications for research and practice are discussed
Scale Validation via Quantifying Item Validity Using the D m Index
While most validity indices are based on total test scores, this paper describes a method for quantifying the construct validity of items. The approach is based on the item selection technique originally described by Piazza in 1980. Unfortunately, Piazza's P2 index suffers from some substantial limitations. The Dm coefficient provides an alternative which can be used for item selection and provides a validity index for a set of items. The index i…
Demographic, work-related, and life satisfaction predictors of northern social workers’ satisfaction with work and profession
Social workers in northern Canada were surveyed about work and professional satisfaction. Career commitment, turnover, and organizational citizenship predicted organizational satisfaction. Total satisfaction was associated with turnover. Research and theory in social work on remote communities should extend beyond characteristics of work, profession, and environment to include personal life factors
The use of cognitive interviews to revise the Quality of Trauma Care Patient-Reported Experience Measure (QTAC-PREM)
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Applied Psychology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Psychometrics (4 works)