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I am interested in the measurement of domains of women's empowerment in different contexts.

I have studied existing tools for the measurement of empowerment (using EFA, CFA, and MIMIC models). However, I am now working (with Bethany) to develop my own tools and would like to be able to test them more extensively.

I work primarily in Stata but have also used MPlus, R, HLM, and SAS.

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I'm broadly interested  in the perception of humanness: how people attribute a human mind to nonhuman entities (e.g., anthropomorphism) and deny human characteristics in other people, typically outgroup members (e.g., dehumanization).

In this seminar, I hope to learn more about scale development and validation. With Scott and Fai, we have been trying to develop a scale to measure individuals' disposition to derive pleasure from others' misfortune.
I use SPSS, Excel, and R to conduct statistical analysis.

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Hoping to learn the skills to develop valid and reliable surveys targeting mental illness, racial identification, and discrimination.  Stata and SPSS. I have engaged in survey design research, but have not examined how to create or test psychometric scales.

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I am interested in socioecological determinants of health of immigrant populations, in particular health behaviors and outcomes related to cancer prevention and control. I have had some experience doing validation of different scales in the past. My long-term goal for this seminar is to be able to develop a scale on acculturation to use in my dissertation on HPV vaccine decision-making among Vietnamese parents. I am familiar/comfortable with SAS.

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I hope to gain further understanding of measurement development, including validation of measures for use across various contexts or with diverse populations.

For my MPH I used Principal components analysis (but that was long ago and I need a refresher!) and for my doctoral work I used EFA/CFA to develop a measure of 'sanitation insecurity' among women in rural India.

I am taking this course as I am working with a colleague to create measures of Women's Empowerment specific to water and sanitation (modeled after the pro-weia for agriculture). I also am interested in other measures for women's experiences of water insecurity and menstrual management in rural India. I have used SAS, MPLUS, HLM, and a bit of STATA and SEM. All continuously need practice.

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I study organizational behavior, and I don't have an specific topic yet. My expectations include to use IRT in already validated scales, to verify what could be improved. I usually use Stata software for statistical analyses.

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From this seminar, I hope to learn how to develop measures, test their effectiveness, and apply them to fields that I am interested in. My general research interest is psychometrics and social psychology. I don't have any prior experience of developing and studying psychometric scales. I am interested in developing scales related to personality. I mostly use R and a little bit of SPSS.

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I would like to learn about scale development and validation.  I have not developed any scales but am interested in scales to measure exposure to different forms of violence as I work on the epidemiology of violence against women and girls.  I work with Fai on an evaluation of measures of women's empowerment in agriculture. I had previously done some factor analysis, but have had no formal training on psychometric methods beyond my work with Fai. I usually use Stata, but know some R.  I am not familiar with M Plus.

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I am hoping to learn more about the development of multidimensional scales and IRT analyses. I also want to learn Mplus. Regarding research, I am interested in examining the overlap among cognitive biases, dispositional constructs (e.g., intellectual humility), and personality traits.

I have assisted with the development of a self-report measure of cognitive integrity, but it has not been validated yet. I am also hoping to develop an informant-report measure of intellectual humility (and validating it!).

I am most familiar with SPSS, and I probably use it the most, but I also use R for more complicated analyses.

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I am auditing this class because I wanted to be familiar with R and Mplus. Additionally, I wanted to learn about scale validation (EFA/CFA) which is the premise for the structure equation modeling analysis in my dissertation.

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Over the course of the semester, I hope to further my understanding of test construction and develop related skills.

My research interests include the relations between personality and political ideology; adaptive features of psychopathic personality; and philosophy of science.

I have previously developed a measure of authoritarianism.

I mostly use R, MPlus, and SPSS.

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I study multilevel modeling and psychometrics. I hope this seminar will be a useful, stimulating, and fun for everyone. I have studied computer help-seeking behavior, math self-efficacy, women's agency and intimate partner violence. I will be studying economic coercion next semester. I use Mplus, Stata, R, SPSS, and SAS.

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I'd like to develop a scale related to sexual harassment in Jordan for female college students and validate this scale in Arabic. I usually use SAS for my statistical analyses. I'm super excited to be here.

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Seminar expectations: I am interested in scale development and validation.
Research interests: Determinants and outcomes of female genital cutting. Sexual and reproductive health of refugee populations.
Statistical programs: I mostly use Stata for my own research. For coursework, SAS.

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Tell us a little bit about yourself.  Share with us your seminar expectations and research interests.   Have you developed and studied any psychometric scales before?  What are they if you have? Are there any scales that you are interested in  developing and validating? What are the statistical programs and/or programming language(s) that you mostly use?

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Tell us a little bit about yourself.  Share with us your seminar expectations and research interests.   Have you developed and studied any psychometric scales before?  What are they if you have? Are there any scales that you are interested in  developing and validating? What are the statistical programs and/or programming language(s) that you mostly use?