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Burgoyne, Alexander P.; Macnamara, Brooke N. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
The Mindset Assessment Profile is a popular questionnaire purportedly designed to measure mindset--an individual's belief in whether intelligence is malleable or stable. Despite its widespread use, the questionnaire appears to assess an individual's need for cognition and goal orientation more than mindset. We assessed the reliability, construct…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Questionnaires, Cognitive Tests, Intelligence
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Bacchini, Dario; De Angelis, Grazia; Affuso, Gaetana; Brugman, Daniel – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2016
This study aims to investigate the structure of self-serving cognitive distortions (CD), evaluating the psychometric properties of the How I Think Questionnaire in a sample of Italian adolescents. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the distinction between four categories of CD and the use of a single second-order dimension of CD. Reliability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Questionnaires, Test Validity
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Chen, Huilin; Chen, Jinsong – Educational Psychology, 2016
By analysing the test data of 1029 British secondary school students' performance on 20 Programme for International Student Assessment English reading items through the generalised deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (G-DINA) model, the study conducted two investigations on exploring the relationships among the five reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Models, Foreign Countries