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Peer reviewedThompson, Bruce; Andersson, Billie V. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1983
The construct validity of three subtests of the Structure-of-Intellect Learning Abilities Test ( (1) Divergent Production of Figural Units (DFU), (2) Divergent Production of Semantic Units, and (3) Divergent Production of Symbolic Relations) was investigated and generally supported, although results were somewhat mixed with respect to the DFU…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Divergent Thinking, Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis
Reliability and Validity of SERVQUAL Scores Used To Evaluate Perceptions of Library Service Quality.
Download full textThompson, Bruce; Cook, Colleen – 2000
Research libraries are increasingly supplementing collection counts with perceptions of service quality as indices of status and productivity. The present study was undertaken to explore the reliability and validity of scores from the SERVQUAL measurement protocol (A. Parasuraman and others, 1991), which has previously been used in this type of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Services, Measurement Techniques
Cook, Colleen; Thompson, Bruce – 2000
The SERVQUAL measure was developed by A. Parasuraman, L. Berry, and V. Zeithaml (1988) to measure perceptions of service quality, originally in the retailing sector. However, libraries and other educational institutions are also service providers. Librarians in particular have increasingly become interested in measuring quality of service as the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Library Services, Measurement Techniques
Thompson, Bruce; Pitts, Murray C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1981
Four instruments were correlated with teachers' percep- tions of elementary school children (N=113). Results suggested that teachers can generate tenable initial estimates of cognitive styles of students. (RC)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Peer reviewedCook, Colleen; Thompson, Bruce – Library Trends, 2001
Investigated the psychometric integrity of scores from the LibQUAL+ evaluation of perceived library service quality conducted by ARL (Association of Research Libraries). Examines score structure, score reliability, score correlation and concurrent validity coefficients, scale means, and scale standardized norms, and considers the potential of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Concurrent Validity, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
Thompson, Bruce – 2000
Web-based statistical instruction, like all statistical instruction, ought to focus on teaching the essence of the research endeavor: the exercise of reflective judgment. Using the framework of the recent report of the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on Statistical Inference (Wilkinson and the APA Task Force on Statistical…
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation Methods
