RATING SCALES INTRODUCTION Rating scales‚ as the name implies‚ are scales for rating each of the characteristics or activities one is seeking to observe or assess. A rating scale is a set of categories designed to elicit information about a quantitative or qualitative attribute. They enable an observer to systematically and objectively observe a person and record those observations. In the social sciences‚ a common example is the Likert scale in which a person is person selects the rating which
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My findings of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale are somewhat alarming to me. I plan to establish a few healthier habits such as getting adequate sleep‚ exercising regularly‚ eating properly to deal with this results. According to Manning‚ Curtis‚ McMillen‚ and Attenweiler (2011)‚ there is a 79 percent chance of sickness in the near future if you have a score over 300 points which represent a serious threat to your well-being. Cancer or heart disease are chronic illnesses that people with the
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1) The competency of nurse practitioners in health practice composed with 36 items of the rating scale questionnaire in four aspects of the competency to develop community health services‚ the leader to change community health‚ to use the law and ethical principle in health practice‚ and the health educator. The scale of this questionnaire was the Likert’s scale that the opinion was divided into five levels‚ 1-5 as follows: least‚ not much‚ neutral‚ somewhat‚ and very much. The reliability value
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Self-Rating Scale The purpose of this questionnaire is to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of the employees. The data collected would be confidential .please rate yourself on the seven point scale against each statement by circulating the appropriate number .please also do the evaluation honestly so that good analysis could be made. The purpose of this questionnaire is to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of the employees. The data collected would be confidential .please rate
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Methods of performance appraisal: Traditional method Traditional method of performance appraisal has been used by companies for very long time. A common feature of these methods is they are all relatively simple and involve appraisal by one senior. 1. Check list method In this method the senior‚ the boss is given a list of questions about the junior. These questions are followed by check boxes. The superior has to put a tick mark in any one of the boxes. This method can be explained with the
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What techniques discussed in this chapter did he seem to apply? Answer: The technique discussed in this chapter did Mr. Trump seem to apply is behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS). It is an appraisal method that aims at combining the benefits of narrative critical incidents and quantified ratings by anchoring a quantified scale with specific narrative example of good or poor performance. There are five steps required to developing the BARS which the first one is write critical incidents. On
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Rating Scale Abstract Hamilton Depression Rating Scale which is observer-rating scale is used to assess severity and type of depression. The aim of this paper is to review and evaluate psychometric properties of HDRS. Six articles which used HDRS are analyzed in terms of reliability and validity evidence of HDRS. Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
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My Social Readjustment Rating Scale score was 570. To say the least the past year has been a world wind. From reading the scale explanations it states that illness is possible with the amount of stress I have had in the past year. I have found this to be true. In the past month I have been feeling more run down than usual. I think now that I have begun scheduling my time again; things will start to settle down. Now when I took the two other quizzes my score was a lot better. The first quiz was 30
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Hamilton depression rating scale Psychometric evaluation was carried out using 17 items of the Hamilton Depression Scale. It is a clinician-administered scale that assesses the severity of depression. A score of 8 or lower is considered to reflect an asymptomatic state‚ with an increasing continuum of symptom severity as scores increase (Hamilton‚ 1967; Lotfy‚ 1994). The young mania rating scale The Young Mania Rating Scale is an 11-item clinician-administered scale used to measure the severity
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Making Research Decisions Rating Scales As a researcher‚ one must choose which rating scale is going to be the most effective method. Once choosing the scale‚ he/she then must decide the amount of choices the subject has. We are going to explore four different scales: 1. Yes/Depends/no‚ 2. Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor‚ 3. Excellent/Good/Average/Poor‚ and 4. Strongly Approve/Approve/Uncertain/Disapprove Strongly Disapprove. I believe that the yes –maybe-no scale is somewhat week unless used
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