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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.

The effect of response order on candidate viewing behaviour and item difficulty in a multiple-choice listening test (2020)
Journal Article
Holzknecht, F., McCray, G., Eberharter, K., Kremmel, B., Zehentner, M., Spiby, R., & Dunlea, J. (2020). The effect of response order on candidate viewing behaviour and item difficulty in a multiple-choice listening test. Language Testing, 38(1), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265532220917316

Studies from various disciplines have reported that spatial location of options in relation to processing order impacts the ultimate choice of the option. A large number of studies have found a primacy effect, that is, the tendency to prefer the firs... Read More about The effect of response order on candidate viewing behaviour and item difficulty in a multiple-choice listening test.

The global scale for early development (GSED) (2019)
Journal Article
Black, M., Bromley, K., Cavallera, V., Cuartas, J., Dua, T., Eekhout, I., …Weber, A. (2019). The global scale for early development (GSED). Early childhood matters,

Developing a video-based method to compare and adjust examiner effects in fully nested OSCEs (2018)
Journal Article
Yeates, P., Cope, N., Hawarden, A., Bradshaw, H., McCray, G., & Homer, M. (2019). Developing a video-based method to compare and adjust examiner effects in fully nested OSCEs. Medical Education, 53(3), 250-263. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13783

Background: Whilst averaging across multiple examiners judgements reduces unwanted overall score variability in Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE), designs involving several parallel circuits of the OSCE require that different examin... Read More about Developing a video-based method to compare and adjust examiner effects in fully nested OSCEs.

Exploring the Relationship between Examiners’ Memories for performances, domain separation and score variability. (2018)
Journal Article
Yeates, & McCray. (2018). Exploring the Relationship between Examiners’ Memories for performances, domain separation and score variability. Medical Teacher, 1159-1165. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2018.1463088

Background: OSCE examiners' scores are variable and may discriminate domains of performance poorly. Examiners must hold their observations of OSCE performances in "episodic memory" until performances end. We investigated whether examiners vary in the... Read More about Exploring the Relationship between Examiners’ Memories for performances, domain separation and score variability..

Creation of the WHO Indicators of Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD): metadata synthesis across 10 countries (2018)
Journal Article
Lancaster, G. A., McCray, G., Kariger, P., Dua, T., Titman, A., Chandna, J., …Janus, M. (2018). Creation of the WHO Indicators of Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD): metadata synthesis across 10 countries. BMJ Global Health, 3(5), e000747. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000747

Background Renewed global commitment to the improvement of early child development outcomes, as evidenced by the focus of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, highlights an increased need for reliable and valid measures to evaluate prev... Read More about Creation of the WHO Indicators of Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD): metadata synthesis across 10 countries.

Sample size re-estimation in paired comparative diagnostic accuracy studies with a binary response. (2017)
Journal Article
McCray. (2017). Sample size re-estimation in paired comparative diagnostic accuracy studies with a binary response. BMC medical research methodology, 102 -. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0386-5

BACKGROUND: The sample size required to power a study to a nominal level in a paired comparative diagnostic accuracy study, i.e. studies in which the diagnostic accuracy of two testing procedures is compared relative to a gold standard, depends on th... Read More about Sample size re-estimation in paired comparative diagnostic accuracy studies with a binary response..

Investigating the construct measured by banked gap-fill items: Evidence from eye-tracking (2016)
Journal Article
McCray. (2016). Investigating the construct measured by banked gap-fill items: Evidence from eye-tracking. Language Testing, 51-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265532216677105

This study investigates test-takers’ processing while completing banked gap-fill tasks, designed to test reading proficiency, in order to test theoretically based expectations about the variation in cognitive processes of test-takers across levels of... Read More about Investigating the construct measured by banked gap-fill items: Evidence from eye-tracking.