Approaches to Preventing Early Adolescent Alcohol Use: Early Childhood Risk Factors, Drinking Motives, and Mother-Adolescent AgreementAbstract.Purpose: In the present study, both early childhood- as well as ...
The Analysis of Learning Environments: Approaches to Determine the Reliability and Agreement of Student RatingsAbstract. The majority of studies in educational research rely on student ratings to assess characteristics of the learning environment. At the ...
Self-Reported Health Behavior in Children: What Are Their Parents’ and Classmates’ Ratings?Abstract. The aim of the study was to validate the “German Health Behavior in Children Questionnaire” (GEKI; Meier, Eschenbeck, & Kohlmann, 2013) by examining ...
Background: Mental illness is prevalent, disabling, and costly. Emergency department (ED) visits for mental health-related reasons are on the increase. Aims: Determine the level of agreement between emergency physicians and psychiatrists regarding ...
At the level of manifest categorical variables, a large number of coefficients and models for the examination of rater agreement has been proposed and used. The most popular of these is Cohen's κ. In this article, a new coefficient, κ s , is proposed as ...