Stephen W Russell
Improving Observational Skills to Enhance the Clinical Examination
The Medical clinics of North America
present study explored construct validity psychometric entrance test pet higher education israel represented factorial structure scholastic aptitudes measures focused whether test presents single measure overall ability measure fields knowledge tested study 1 used exploratory factor analysis generate hypotheses regarding factorial structure test study 2 confirmatory factor analysis carried compare competing models constructed based theoretical considerations results study 1 findings indicated twolayered hierarchical model encompassing general ability factor three scholastic domainspecific factors verbal reasoning quantitative reasoning english showed best fit within framework cfa several statistical procedures applied assess reliability indicator complexity validity convergent divergent