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Direct linkDe La Garza, Thomas; Wood, J. Luke; Harris, Frank, III – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The Community College Survey of Men (CCSM) assesses predictors of student success for historically underrepresented and underserved men in community colleges. The instrument is designed to inform programming and service-delivery for male students (Wood & Harris, 2013). While the instrument was designed for community college men in general,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Veterans, Veterans Education, Predictor Variables
Taylor-Ritzler, Tina; Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda; Garcia-Iriarte, Edurne; Henry, David B.; Balcazar, Fabricio E. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
This study describes the development and validation of the Evaluation Capacity Assessment Instrument (ECAI), a measure designed to assess evaluation capacity among staff of nonprofit organizations that is based on a synthesis model of evaluation capacity. One hundred and sixty-nine staff of nonprofit organizations completed the ECAI. The 68-item…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Nonprofit Organizations, Capacity Building
Garb, Howard N.; Wood, James M.; Fiedler, Edna R. – Assessment, 2011
Using 65 items from a mental health screening questionnaire, the History Opinion Inventory-Revised (HOI-R), the present study compared three strategies of scale construction--(1) internal (based on factor analysis), (2) external (based on empirical performance) and (3) intuitive (based on clinicians' opinion)--to predict whether 203,595 U.S. Air…
Descriptors: Opinions, Mental Health, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals)
Gilbert, Shelby – Negro Educational Review, 2009
Ogbu and Simons' thesis, based on the Cultural-Ecological Theory of School Performance that Black immigrant students academically outperform their non-immigrant counterparts and that achievement differences are attributed to stronger educational commitment in Black immigrant families, was examined. Two hypotheses, based on data from the Progress…
Descriptors: African American Children, Immigrants, Program Validation, Theses
Kerby, Dave S.; Ragan, Katie M. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2002
Leisure activities are widely used in research to predict important outcomes, but the existing studies use different classification schemes and apparently rely on the intuition of the researcher to classify activities. The goal of the current study was to use the Holland RIASEC personality system to empirically classify activities using a sample…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Recreational Activities, Predictor Variables, Classification
