Outputs (49)

Combining expert judgment and psychometric information to create the Global Scale for Early Development (GSED) (2021)
Presentation / Conference
McCray, G., Gladstone, M., Cavallera, V., McCoy, D., Waldman, M., Eekhout, I., …Weber, A. (2021, June). Combining expert judgment and psychometric information to create the Global Scale for Early Development (GSED). Paper presented at Proceedings of the Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference, Sheffield, UK

Background: The Global Scale for Early Development (GSED) a global and culturally neutral measure of child development under 3 years of age is designed to allow comparisons within and across countries. The project has been undertaken by an experience... Read More about Combining expert judgment and psychometric information to create the Global Scale for Early Development (GSED).

Validation of the Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD) Indicators in Three Countries: Brazil, Malawi and Pakistan (2021)
Journal Article
Gladstone, M., Lancaster, G., McCray, G., Cavallera, V., Alves, C. R., Maliwichi, L., …Kariger, P. (2021). Validation of the Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD) Indicators in Three Countries: Brazil, Malawi and Pakistan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 1 - 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116117

Background: The early childhood years provide an important window of opportunity to build strong foundations for future development. One impediment to global progress is a lack of population-based measurement tools to provide reliable estimates of de... Read More about Validation of the Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD) Indicators in Three Countries: Brazil, Malawi and Pakistan.

Measuring the Effect of Examiner Variability in a Multiple-Circuit Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) (2021)
Journal Article
Yeates, P., Moult, A., Cope, N., McCray, G., Xilas, E., Lovelock, T., …McKinley, R. K. (. (2021). Measuring the Effect of Examiner Variability in a Multiple-Circuit Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Academic Medicine, 96(8), 1189-1196. https://doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000004028

Purpose Ensuring that examiners in different parallel circuits of objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) judge to the same standard is critical to the chain of validity. Recent work suggests examiner-cohort (i.e., the particular group of... Read More about Measuring the Effect of Examiner Variability in a Multiple-Circuit Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).

Determining sample size for progression criteria for pragmatic pilot RCTs: the hypothesis test strikes back! (2021)
Journal Article
Lewis, M., Bromley, K., Sutton, C., McCray, G., Myers, H., & Lancaster, G. (2021). Determining sample size for progression criteria for pragmatic pilot RCTs: the hypothesis test strikes back!. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7, Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00770-x

BACKGROUND: The current CONSORT guidelines for reporting pilot trials do not recommend hypothesis testing of clinical outcomes on the basis that a pilot trial is under-powered to detect such differences and this is the aim of the main trial. It state... Read More about Determining sample size for progression criteria for pragmatic pilot RCTs: the hypothesis test strikes back!.

Exploring classroom willingness to communicate: the role of motivating future L2 selves (2020)
Journal Article
Shen, S., Mazgutova, D., & McCray, G. (2020). Exploring classroom willingness to communicate: the role of motivating future L2 selves. International Journal of Educational Methodology, 6(4), 729-743

This study investigated the link between future L2 selves and Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in the classroom in the UK university context. We applied a mixed methods approach to collect data from 121 Chinese overseas students where a questionnaire... Read More about Exploring classroom willingness to communicate: the role of motivating future L2 selves.

German translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire: cohort study. (2020)
Journal Article
KARSTENS, S., CHRISTIANSEN, D. H., BRINKMANN, M., HAHM, M., McCRAY, G., HILL, J. C., & JOOS, S. (2020). German translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire: cohort study. European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 56(6), 771-779. https://doi.org/10.23736/S1973-9087.20.06054-2

BACKGROUND: The Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) was developed to measure the health status of patients with various musculoskeletal conditions across multiple settings including rehabilitation. AIM: Formal translation and cross-cultural... Read More about German translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire: cohort study..

The Place of the Bifactor Model in Confirmatory Factor Analysis Investigations Into Construct Dimensionality in Language Testing. (2020)
Journal Article
Dunn, K. J., & McCray, G. (2020). The Place of the Bifactor Model in Confirmatory Factor Analysis Investigations Into Construct Dimensionality in Language Testing. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1- 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01357

For practical and theoretical purposes, tests of second language (L2) ability commonly aim to measure one overarching trait, general language ability, while simultaneously measuring multiple sub-traits (e.g., reading, grammar, etc.). This tension bet... Read More about The Place of the Bifactor Model in Confirmatory Factor Analysis Investigations Into Construct Dimensionality in Language Testing..

Validation of the Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) in Primary Care Patients with Musculoskeletal Pain (2020)
Journal Article
Scott, I. C., McCray, G., Lancaster, G., Foster, N. E., & Hill, J. C. (2020). Validation of the Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) in Primary Care Patients with Musculoskeletal Pain. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 50(5), 813-820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2020.06.022

Objective
To evaluate the responsiveness, and concurrent validity of the Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) in UK primary care patients with common musculoskeletal (MSK) pain presentations.

Methods
A secondary analysis of a primary ca... Read More about Validation of the Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) in Primary Care Patients with Musculoskeletal Pain.

Measurement properties of the musculoskeletal health questionnaire (MSK-HQ): a between country comparison (2020)
Journal Article
Høyrup Christiansen, D., McCray, G., Nøhr Winding, T., Hviid Andersen, J., Jacob Nielsen, K., Karstens, S., & Hill, J. (2020). Measurement properties of the musculoskeletal health questionnaire (MSK-HQ): a between country comparison. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 18, Article 200. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-020-01455-4

BACKGROUND: The Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) has been developed to measure musculoskeletal health status across musculoskeletal conditions and settings. However, the MSK-HQ needs to be further evaluated across settings and different... Read More about Measurement properties of the musculoskeletal health questionnaire (MSK-HQ): a between country comparison.

Conducting a Feasibility Study in a Global Health Setting for Constructing a Caregiver-Reported Measurement Tool: An Example in Infant and Young Child Development (2020)
Journal Article
Lancaster, G. A., Kariger, P., McCray, G., Janus, M., Gladstone, M., Cavallera, V., …Senganimalunje, L. (2020). Conducting a Feasibility Study in a Global Health Setting for Constructing a Caregiver-Reported Measurement Tool: An Example in Infant and Young Child Development. Cases, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529741414

The early childhood years provide an important window of opportunity to build a strong foundation for future development. The newborn’s skills and abilities increase rapidly in a secure, stimulating environment, with supportive interactions and adequ... Read More about Conducting a Feasibility Study in a Global Health Setting for Constructing a Caregiver-Reported Measurement Tool: An Example in Infant and Young Child Development.