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Ball, Annahita; Bates, Samantha; Amorose, Anthony; Anderson-Butcher, Dawn – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Parent engagement in schools is often precipitated by a thorough and genuine assessment of parents' needs, priorities, and perceptions of their children's schools. This study reports on the development and validation of the Parent Perceptions of Overall School Experiences Scale. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) examined the factorial validity…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Experience, Parent School Relationship
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Evers, Arnoud T.; Verboon, Peter; Klaeijsen, Andrea – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
In the current study a multi-dimensional scale that measures teacher autonomous behaviour is presented. The scale is applicable across the following educational sectors: primary education, secondary education and vocational education. Based on an elaborate literature study, four theoretically relevant dimensions of teacher autonomous behaviour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Test Validity, Rating Scales
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Christensen, Rhonda; Knezek, Gerald – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2017
Appraisal of the readiness of teachers to accept and use mobile devices for classroom instruction is a critical step whenever an expectation exists that the devices will be used to enhance student learning. Designing professional development requires assessment of teachers' readiness and willingness to embrace mobile learning for their students.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Readiness, Program Validation, Adoption (Ideas)
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Unal, Ali – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The aim of this study is to develop a scale which will describe how education supervisors' behaviours are perceived. Four separate studies have been conducted in order to develop the scale. In the first study the scale that was developed is applied to a working group consisting of 704 teachers. The factor structure of the scale is examined by…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Factor Structure, Test Validity, Factor Analysis
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Shen, Bo; Wingert, Robert K.; Li, Weidong; Sun, Haichun; Rukavina, Paul Bernard – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2010
Amotivation refers to a state in which individuals cannot perceive a relationship between their behavior and that behavior's subsequent outcome. With the belief that considering amotivation as a multidimensional construct could reflect the complexity of motivational deficits in physical education, we developed this study to validate an amotivation…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Factor Structure
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Young, John W. – Educational Assessment, 2009
In this article, I specify a conceptual framework for test validity research on content assessments taken by English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. schools in grades K-12. This framework is modeled after one previously delineated by Willingham et al. (1988), which was developed to guide research on students with disabilities. In this framework…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Evaluation Research, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education