When Older Adults Rate Their Health, Who They Are Shapes What They Say
A Swedish study of adults aged 60 to 85 finds that adjusting self-rated health with anchoring vignettes reverses the apparent ...
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New Chemistry Test Reveals a Bimodal Puzzle in Kazakhstani Teacher Trainees’ Critical Thinking
A newly calibrated 26-item screening test for pre-service chemistry teachers in Kazakhstan shows strong internal calibration but a striking bimodal ...
Learning survey scores hold steady across Chilean and Ecuadorian universities
A new psychometric study shows that three retained dimensions of a learning-management questionnaire produce approximately stable measurement parameters across Chilean ...
Seven Questions Could Reveal What Nurses Really Know About Brain Drain Care
A Chinese research team has validated a seven-item questionnaire that rapidly measures nurses' self-reported knowledge of external ventricular drain care ...
Social Media Burnout Scales May Not Mean the Same Thing Across Cultures, Study Warns
A study of 1,323 university students in Ghana, Hong Kong and Türkiye shows that widely used social overload and social ...
A 40-Question Personality Test Passes Its Italian Exam With Flying Colors
A new validation study shows that the 40-item BFAS-40 personality questionnaire, measuring ten finer-grained aspects of the Big Five, works ...
Massive New Test Measures How Chinese Children’s Vocabulary Grows Across Nine Grades
Researchers have developed and validated the first Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test for native-speaking students in Grades 1 through 9, drawing ...
Digital Mental Health Test Shows Cracks When Screening Autistic Youth
A new study of 155 autistic youth finds that the K-CAT computerized adaptive mental health test detects plausible symptom patterns ...
Self-Efficacy Scale Measures Men and Women Equally, Ecuadorian Study Finds
A psychometric study of 485 Ecuadorian adults found that the General Self-Efficacy Scale measures men and women equally, with no ...
Gold-Standard Autism Tests Show Hidden Sex Bias at the Item Level
A detailed statistical analysis of 458 children referred for autism evaluation found item-level sex bias in the caregiver-reported ADI-R but ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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