Construct validity

which is the willing to participate Delaware State University faculty and students. Thirdly, I would decide how the survey would be administered. My decision would be to send a mass email to each faculty member and student. Fourthly, I will construct the first draft of the survey. In my survey, I will include my questions such as: “On a scale of one to ten how do you rate the shows?” “How did you feel after hearing profanity?” “Do you use profanity?” “If so, how often?” Fifthly, I will…

School Engagement (SE) has become a significantly popular topic of psychological research in recent decades. Better engagement definitely influences achievement, success, aspiration, desire, future establishment and overall development of personality. . A frequently used measure of SE is the School Engagement Scale (SES) developed by Fredricks, Blumenfeld, Friedel, and Paris (2003). The SES comprises 19 items under three subscales. Since its development, a number of validation studies have been…

The validity of a profile can be changed extremely because of the issue with instinct and intuition. With this, one can conclude that profiling may not be the best way to identify the offender. In a chapter of a book, named Contemporary Problems in Criminal Profiling, John Kocsis and George Palermo imply, “They have focused on the blurred borderlines between instinct/intuition and the scientific procedures adopted by the profiler, which may influence the entire scientific validity of the…

Infectious Coryza Limited by the knowledge of microbes, infectious coryza was not regarded as a distinct avian disease until 1920s. In 1932, the causative agent was isolated and named as Haemophilus gallinarum afterwards. Based on the identification of Page in 1960s, H. paragallinarum was isolated and regarded as the true causative bacteria. However, recent researches have confirmed both these two species belong to Avibacterium genus and are both reason for the fowl coryza, while most researches…

spirit a realm in which to move, to be itself, and have validity; they are the virtues that protect the soul from pain and suffering. Moral education – the study of what is good - is therefore, the most important to me of all three character aspects we have studied in this course. Of all moral virtues, I believe empathy to be that underlying good that can lead to all other good. As Seider points out “empathy is a multidimensional construct…

In a few months I will start practicing as a professional counselor. This requires hard work, continuous reading and following courses, practicum, and writing and passing my license. The role of a counselor. Before I delve into this I wish to clarify some point that I hold dear to me as far as counseling is a concern; it is the provision of assistance and guidance in solving personal, social, or psychological problems and difficulties, especially by a professional. This guiding role places the…

Jimmy Wong Prof. Dysart PSY 370 Eyewitness Identification The overall aspect of eyewitness identification is questionable and has been argued over whether or not it’s plausible and accurate when brought into trials or experiments. Often time’s witnesses are under extreme conditions when their testimonies of events are needed. One question that comes to mind is, due to wrongful convictions found after DNA testing; will eyewitness identification be accurate enough to overturn a wrongful…

The topic of our research project focuses on how adherence to masculinity and feminine norms play a role in the health disparities between men and women. The article “Men are leavers alone and women are worriers: Gender differences in discourses of health” by Charles and Walter helps shed light on the way cultural constructions of gender affects the health of both males and females, collectively (2008). The primary reason for selecting to review this particular empirical article is because it…

Executive editor and author, Rob Horning in his article, “Google Alert for the Soul,” discusses how the once maintainable quality of authenticity as enabled by being a “unique interior self,” has since become unsustainable with the application of social media (thenewinquiry.com). Accordingly, as an example of a social media platform, Facebook similarly, considers this ideology through the notion of post-truth in which “objective facts are less influential than appeals to personal beliefs” (OED).…

avoid delving too deeply into the ideological pool, and thus be distracted away from the patterns and structures of the discourse itself (Matheson, 2005). Consideration must also be made for the power structures of mass media, as part of a larger construct of understanding (Matheson, 2005). The power of the media’s mass distribution “transforms selected private perspectives into broad public perspectives” (Gerbner, 1985, p. 15) thus creating associations where none may have existed before. While…