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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Why do you think this structure is so widely used? The organizational structure is composed of different departments that help operate the business‚ such as‚ purchasing‚ operations‚ warehouse‚ sales and marketing‚ accounting‚ research and development‚ finance and accounting‚ human resource‚ and information technology. I look at Direct Relief International when they need supplies they use the SAP website to track everything they need. Most of their material is available for anyone to see what
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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 in exploratory
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Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF Working Papers‚ which are technical papers produced by IMF staff members and visiting scholars‚ as well as from policy-related research papers. This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened
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beliefs. He refuses to dispense the prescription believing that the prescription is being used as an abortifacient. The patient explains that she needs to have the prescription filled soon‚ as she shared her tragic story of being attacked and raped a day before. Marc insisted that she should seek counselling. |Looveral contains ethinyl estradiol and norgestrel and is used as a contraceptive when taken one tablet per day. | |When taken in a manner prescribed to the patient above it is intended
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result in a higher R-squared than one using cross-sectional data. Why do you think this is the case? R-squared measures the goodness of fit of a regression equation. A time series analysis of demand tends to result in a higher R-squared than one using cross-sectional data because data is being gathered at multiple periods of time as opposed to one period of time when using cross-sectional data. II. What is the identification problem? What effect will this problem have on the regression estimates
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research design process is to identify a real world problem or management dilemma and provide a very brief description of the nature of the issue‚ the undesirable symptoms‚ and our inability or lack of knowledge to solve the problem. All the other components are designed to produce a contribution to knowledge that will help solve this problem. While there are some fields that do pure research‚ there are plenty of real world management problems and opportunities for improvement that management researchers
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Cell Phones Do Not Cause Any Health Problems In today’s world‚ cell phones are part of a life. As the technology improves more and more people are buying cell phones. Many new cell phones are like a small computer‚ as they have a picture and video camera‚ web browsing‚ music player‚ internal storage‚ and many other features. “Statistics show that 79% of the U.S. population and 90% of European and Asian teens own a cell phone” (O’Keefe‚ 2008‚ p. 671). In some countries around the world such as
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Article: Information technology: a growth navigator for small scale industries in India Small scale industries (SSI) have a significant role in the Indian economy in view of its contribution to production‚ employment‚ and export. However‚ since 1991 small scale industries in India find themselves in an intensely competitive environment due to globalization‚ domestic economic liberalization‚ and dilution of sector specific protective measures. The formation of World Trade Organization in 1995 also
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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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