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Y. Yokhebed; Rexy Maulana Dwi Karmadi; Luvia Ranggi Nastiti – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2025
Although self-assessment in critical thinking is thought to help students recognise their strengths and weaknesses, the reliability and validity of the assessment tool is still questionable, so a more objective evaluation is needed. Objective of this investigation is to assess the self-assessment tools in evaluating students' critical thinking…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Critical Thinking, Science and Society, Test Validity
Jenna M. T. Vest – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focuses on creating a reliable and valid instrument to measure high school students' perceptions of academic challenge. The research is divided into four phases: qualitative analysis, item development, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and validation. Initial data from college students' retrospective views and high school students'…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Parker, Mark A. J.; Hedgeland, Holly; Jordan, Sally E.; Braithwaite, Nicholas St. J. – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
The study covers the development and testing of the alternative mechanics survey (AMS), a modified force concept inventory (FCI), which used automatically marked free-response questions. Data were collected over a period of three academic years from 611 participants who were taking physics classes at high school and university level. A total of…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Test Reliability
Stephanie M. Werner; Ying Chen; Mike Stieff – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The Chemistry Self-Concept Inventory (CSCI) is a widely used instrument within chemistry education research. Yet, agreement on its overall reliability and validity is lacking, and psychometric analyses of the instrument remain outstanding. This study examined the psychometric properties of the subscale and item function of the CSCI on 1140 high…
Descriptors: Self Concept Measures, Chemistry, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
Saenna, Watcharaporn; Phusee-orn, Songsak – Higher Education Studies, 2022
The purposes of the research were to: (1) create a scientific creativity measure for high school students; (2) examine the quality of the science creativity scale of the created test; (3) establish a benchmark for scientific creativity scores for high school students; and (4) study a scientific creativity level of students in the senior high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, High School Students, Creativity
Stephanie M. Werner; Ying Chen; Mike Stieff – Grantee Submission, 2021
The Chemistry Self-Concept Inventory (CSCI) is a widely used instrument within chemistry education research. Yet, agreement on its overall reliability and validity is lacking, and psychometric analyses of the instrument remain outstanding. This study examined the psychometric properties of the subscale and item function of the CSCI on 1,140 high…
Descriptors: Self Concept Measures, Chemistry, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
Astuti, Budi; Purwanta, Edi; Ayriza, Yulia; Bhakti, Caraka Putra; Lestari, Rizqi; Herwin, Herwin – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
This study aims to produce a school connectedness instrument for high school students in Yogyakarta. This research is quantitative and descriptive. The sample in this study was 526 high school students in Yogyakarta who had implemented online learning. The sampling technique used is simple random sampling. The data collection of this research was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student School Relationship, COVID-19
Setiawan, Johan; Sudrajat, Ajat; Aman; Kumalasari, Dyah – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
This study aimed to: (1) produce higher order thinking skill (HOTS) assessment instruments in learning Indonesian history; (2) know the validity of HOTS assessment instruments in learning Indonesian history; and (3) find out the characteristics of HOTS questions in learning Indonesian history. This study employed the research and development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Thinking Skills, Test Construction
Akase, Masaki – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
The purpose of this study is to equate and further validate three forms of the vocabulary size test (VST) created by Aizawa and Mochizuki (2010). These three forms, VST 1, 2, and 3, were administered to a cohort of 189 high school students ranging in age from 16 to 18 in April of their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year of high school. Although these…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Language Tests, Longitudinal Studies
Rafi, Ibnu; Retnawati, Heri; Apino, Ezi; Hadiana, Deni; Lydiati, Ida; Rosyada, Munaya Nikma – Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study describes the characteristics of the test and its items used in the national-standardized school examination by applying classical test theory and focusing on the item difficulty, item discrimination, test reliability, and distractor analysis. We analyzed response data of 191 12th graders from one of public senior high schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Tests
Cahyono, Sulistio Mukti; Kartawagiran, Badrun; Mahmudah, Fitri Nur – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Teachers who can adapt and be ready for all changes will also be able to provide a balance to increase the competence of vocational high school students. This is also not denied when teachers become assessors in student competency tests. The objectives of this study were to produce an instrument for the readiness of teachers as assessors; to…
Descriptors: Readiness, Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational High Schools, High School Students
Datta, Sumona; Dutta Roy, Debdulal – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
Measurement of mental rotation presents a serious challenge to cognitive researchers owing to the lack of a single comprehensive measure that can be applied across the developing age groups. Objective of the present study was to develop and validate a new measure of mental rotation for preadolescent and adolescent age groups. Items were…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Preadolescents, Adolescents
Van Vo, De; Csapó, Beno – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Control of variables strategy (CVS) is a core scientific reasoning skill related to domain-general experimentation for evaluating an experimental system and deducing valid conclusions. This study aims to develop, validate, and explore latent factors predicting item difficulty in the test, measuring CVS in physics for high school students. The…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Science Tests, Science Process Skills, Physics
Xu, Meidan; Williams, John P.; Gu, Jianjun – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
Pupils' attitudes towards technology have been widely discussed for over three decades, but the equally important topic of teachers' attitudes towards technology has not gained similar attention. To address this gap, the technology teachers' attitude towards technology (TTATT) scale was developed and validated by pilot testing with 140 Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Teacher Attitudes, High School Teachers
Annisa, Azza Ismu; Mundilarto – Online Submission, 2020
This study aims to reveal (1) the construct and (2) the characteristics of the developed instrument for assessing Physics cognitive learning achievement of high school students in outdoor learning models through local wisdom-based fieldwork. This research was a research and development using the approach developed by Mardapi (2012: 110). The steps…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Physics, Achievement Tests, Science Achievement