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a set of workplace social norms for the behavior of employees in partitioned cubicles, governing such issues as privacy, noise, odors, and workspace cleanliness.

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May 10th 2024

psychometric research

psychometric research

studies in the field of psychological measurement. Such research includes the development of new measures and appropriate methods for their scoring, the establishment of reliability and validity evidence for measures, the examination of item and scale properties and their dimensions, and the evaluation of differential item functioning across subgroups. For example, psychometric research could be used to determine whether a new scale is appropriately administered and scored in a specific subpopulation of respondents.