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Ito, Ayako; Smith, Douglas C.; You, Sukkyung; Shimoda, Yoshiyuki; Furlong, Michael J. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2015
The article explores the use of the Social and Emotional Health Survey-Secondary version (SEHS-S) with a sample of 975 Japanese students in Grades 7-9 attending schools located northwest of Tokyo. A confirmatory factor analysis using half the sample confirmed the four-factor structure of the SEHS-S, and further analyses verified its second-order…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Social Development, Surveys, Test Construction
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Hacieminoglu, Esme; Yilmaz-Tüzün, Özgül; Ertepinar, Hamide – Education 3-13, 2014
The purposes of this study were to develop and validate an instrument for assessing elementary students' nature of science (NOS) views and to explain the elementary school students' NOS views, in terms of varying grade levels and gender. The sample included 782 students enrolled in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Scientific Principles, Test Construction, Program Validation
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Susana C. Marques; J. L. Pais-Ribeiro; Shane J. Lopez – School Psychology International, 2009
The article describes the development of the Portuguese version of the Children's Hope Scale and the examination of its psychometric properties. A sample of 367 Portuguese students completed the Portuguese-language versions of the Children's Hope Scale (CHS; Snyder et al., 1997), Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS; Huebner, 1991), Global…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Translation, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)