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Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S.; Stark, Stephen; Williams, Alex – International Journal of Testing, 2009
The purpose of this article is to offer a new approach to measuring person-organization (P-O) fit, referred to here as "Latent fit." Respondents were administered unidimensional forced choice items and were asked to choose the statement in each pair that better reflected the correspondence between their values and those of the…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Personality Theories, Measurement Techniques, Validity
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Harris, Lois R.; Brown, Gavin T. L. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2010
Structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviews are often used in mixed method studies to generate confirmatory results despite differences in methods of data collection, analysis, and interpretation. A review of 19 questionnaire-interview comparison studies found that consensus and consistency statistics were generally weak between…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Questionnaires, Interviews, Data Collection
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Mackay, Lisa M.; Schofield, Grant M.; Schluter, Philip J. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2007
Accurate measurement of physical activity is fundamentally important in epidemiological research of physical activity behavior. A widely used telephone-based physical activity questionnaire was compared with other methods of administration and objective measures (pedometers and accelerometers) among 80 adults (43 women). The telephone…
Descriptors: Intervals, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Questionnaires