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Legette, Kamilah B.; Supple, Andrew; Halberstadt, Amy G. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2023
Racial disparities in teachers' perceptions, interactions, and behaviors of students persist in the United States. Learning more about teachers' beliefs about the causes of racial inequity may help to explain the racial disparities that exist in teachers' behaviors and practice. To better understand and assess teachers' beliefs about the causes of…
Descriptors: Racism, Equal Education, Beliefs, Questionnaires
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Diem Thi Ngoc Hoang; Huy Phung; Nhi Tran – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
With the increasing significance of technology use in both daily life and education, the digital native assessment scale (DNAS) [developed by Teo, T. (2013). An initial development and validation of a Digital Natives Assessment Scale (DNAS). Computers & Education, 67, 51-57.] has been widely used as a tool to investigate the digital nativeness…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Likert Scales
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Sayed, Anwar Shah Wafiq; Fraser, Barry J. – Educational Practice and Theory, 2019
Although the field of classroom learning environments has undergone remarkable expansion and internationalisation, no study in Afghanistan in any subject area or at any educational level has ever adopted a learning environment framework or involved the assessment and investigation of classroom environments. Our study in Afghanistan included seven…
Descriptors: Science Education, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
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Grúnová, M.; Sané, M.; Cincera, Jan; Kroufek, Roman; Hejcmanová, P. – Environmental Education Research, 2019
The New Environmental Paradigm scale for children was developed and validated in Western nations but has seldom been applied in non-western countries. The aim of the current study is to examine the scale's validity for schoolchildren in Senegal. The study was conducted in three regions of Senegal in November and December 2015, and a total 782…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education
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Thomas, Troy D.; Abts, Koen; Vander Weyden, Patrick – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
This article investigates the effect of the rural-urban divide on mean response styles (RSs) and their relationships with the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents. It uses the Representative Indicator Response Style Means and Covariance Structure (RIRSMACS) method and data from Guyana--a developing country in the Caribbean. The…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Response Style (Tests), Demography, Social Characteristics
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Maart, S.; Eide, A. H.; Jelsma, J.; Loeb, M. E.; Toni, M. Ka – Disability & Society, 2007
Impairments pose a certain degree of difficulty to disabled people, however the impact of the environment is the major cause of disability. Despite the fact that the disabling effect of environmental factors is acknowledged, little research has been done to explore the impact of the environment on varying degrees of disability and different…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Construct Validity, Disabilities, Urban Areas