Valerie S L Williams

• Development and psychometric evaluation of the Endometriosis Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire

  Open Access•Linda S Deal, Valerie Williams et al.•ARTICLE•Quality of Life Research•2010

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• Psychometric Properties of the CAHPSTM 1.0 Survey Measures

  Ron D Hays, James A Shaul et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1999•Referências: 18

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  OBJECTIVES: Consumer surveys are being used increasingly to assess the quality of care provided by health plans, physician groups, and clinicians. The purpose of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) is to develop an integrated and standardized set of surveys designed to collect reliable and valid information about health plan performance from consumers. This article reports psychometric results for the CAHPS 1.0 survey items in s…

• Special Issues Addressed in the CAHPSTM Survey of Medicare Managed Care Beneficiaries

  Jenny A Schnaier, Sheri F Sweeny et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1999•Referências: 4

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  OBJECTIVES: This article describes the process through which the MMC survey was developed and examines issues in using this survey with Medicare beneficiaries that have implications for all CAHPS surveys. These include the ability of Medicare beneficiaries to use MMC navigational features, whether access measures are meaningful for this population, and whether beneficiaries' familiarity with managed care influences their health plan assessments. …

• An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

  Open Access•Bernadette Gray-Little, Bernadette Gray‐Little et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•1997

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  The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, a widely used self-report instrument for evaluating individual self-esteem, was investigated using item response theory. Factor analysis identified a single common factor, contrary to some previous studies that extracted separate Self-Confidence and Self-Depreciation factors. A unidimensional model for graded item responses was fit to the data. A model that constrained the 10 items to equal discrimination was cont…

• The Predictive Validity of the National Teacher Examinations Used for Admission to Teacher Education Programs

  Open Access•Valerie Williams, Valerie S L Williams et al.•ARTICLE•Educational and Psychological…•1993

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  This research investigates previous findings which report that performance on the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) tests of Communication Skills (CS) and General Knowledge (GK) used for teacher education admissions was not related to performance in teacher education course work. Administrative data were collected for 1,143 graduates of teacher education programs, including various test scores and grade point averages. The CS and GK scores were…

• The Predictive Validity of the National Teacher Examinations Used for Admission to Teacher Education Programs

  Open Access•Valerie Williams, Valerie S L Williams et al.•ARTICLE•Educational and Psychological…•1993

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  This research investigates previous findings which report that performance on the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) tests of Communication Skills (CS) and General Knowledge (GK) used for teacher education admissions was not related to performance in teacher education course work. Administrative data were collected for 1,143 graduates of teacher education programs, including various test scores and grade point averages. The CS and GK scores were…

• An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

  Open Access•Bernadette Gray-Little, Bernadette Gray‐Little et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•1997

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  The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, a widely used self-report instrument for evaluating individual self-esteem, was investigated using item response theory. Factor analysis identified a single common factor, contrary to some previous studies that extracted separate Self-Confidence and Self-Depreciation factors. A unidimensional model for graded item responses was fit to the data. A model that constrained the 10 items to equal discrimination was cont…

• Psychometric Properties of the CAHPSTM 1.0 Survey Measures

  Ron D Hays, James A Shaul et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1999•Referências: 18

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  OBJECTIVES: Consumer surveys are being used increasingly to assess the quality of care provided by health plans, physician groups, and clinicians. The purpose of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) is to develop an integrated and standardized set of surveys designed to collect reliable and valid information about health plan performance from consumers. This article reports psychometric results for the CAHPS 1.0 survey items in s…

• Special Issues Addressed in the CAHPSTM Survey of Medicare Managed Care Beneficiaries

  Jenny A Schnaier, Sheri F Sweeny et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1999•Referências: 4

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  OBJECTIVES: This article describes the process through which the MMC survey was developed and examines issues in using this survey with Medicare beneficiaries that have implications for all CAHPS surveys. These include the ability of Medicare beneficiaries to use MMC navigational features, whether access measures are meaningful for this population, and whether beneficiaries' familiarity with managed care influences their health plan assessments. …

• Development and psychometric evaluation of the Endometriosis Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire

  Open Access•Linda S Deal, Valerie Williams et al.•ARTICLE•Quality of Life Research•2010

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