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László Kasik; Szilvia Jámbori; Zita Gál; Edit Tóth – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2024
The aim of the study was to explore same-sex and opposite-sex friendship functions among 12 to 13- and 16 to 17-year-old Hungarian adolescents (n = 304). To explore perceptions of friendship functions, the McGill Friendship Questionnaire (MFQ, 30 items, 6 factors: stimulating companionship, help, intimacy, reliable alliance, self-validation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Friendship, Questionnaires
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Cadime, Irene; Rodrigues, Bruna; Ribeiro, Iolanda – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Although reading strategy use can be measured using different methods, self-report measures are particularly cost-effective in educational settings. The main goal of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the items of the Reading Strategy Use Scale (RSU), using the Rasch Rating Scale Model. Although the RSU has already been…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Use Studies, Measures (Individuals), Item Response Theory
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Paz-Albo, Jesús; Hervás-Escobar, Aránzazu – Cogent Education, 2023
The English version of the "Math and Me Survey" was developed to measure mathematical attitudes of elementary students. This study was used to translate, validate and examine the attitudes of Spanish students in the second and fourth grades of primary school. The translation-back translation procedure was adopted. A total of 81 students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 4
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Márió Tibor Nagy; Erzsébet Korom – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Nowadays, the assessment of student performance has become increasingly technology-based, a trend that can also be observed in the evaluation of scientific reasoning, with more and more of the formerly paper-based assessment tools moving into the digital space. The study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the paper-based and…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Science Tests
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Babarovic, Toni; Blažev, Mirta; Šverko, Iva; Tracey, Terence J. G. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023
The study aimed to develop and evaluate the psychometrical properties of a new brief measure of gender stereotyping career attitudes. Participants were 222 early and 196 middle adolescents from Croatia. The Vocational Gender Stereotype Attitudes Scale (VGSA) consists of 12 items that represent masculine, feminine and gender-balanced activities…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Psychometrics, Sex Stereotypes, Test Validity
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Gary A. Troia; Frank R. Lawrence; Heqiao Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Writing motivation is a multidimensional construct that has been demonstrated to be of great importance in writing performance and growth. Yet, much of the extant research has failed to examine the nuances of the various dimensions of writing motivation--in particular, task competency beliefs--and has neglected to investigate how the various…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Student Motivation, Elementary School Students, Psychometrics
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Gary A. Troia; Frank R. Lawrence; Heqiao Wang – Grantee Submission, 2024
Writing motivation is a multidimensional construct that has been demonstrated to be of great importance in writing performance and growth. Yet, much of the extant research has failed to examine the nuances of the various dimensions of writing motivation--in particular, task competency beliefs--and has neglected to investigate how the various…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Student Motivation, Elementary School Students, Psychometrics
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Guillemot, Françoise; Hessels, Marco G. P. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2022
The Perceptions of Inclusion Questionnaire (PIQ) measures emotional well-being at school, social inclusion, and academic self-concept of students aged 9 to 15 years, with and without Special Educational Needs (SEN). This study aimed to validate the PIQ with French students in 6th grade. The sample included 288 students with an average age of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Validity, Student Welfare, Grade 6
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Guven Demir, Elif; Öksuz, Yücel – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
This research aimed to investigate animation-based achievement tests according to the item format, psychometric features, students' performance, and gender. The study sample consisted of 52 fifth-grade students in Samsun/Turkey in 2017-2018. Measures of the research were open-ended (OE), animation-based open-ended (AOE), multiple-choice (MC), and…
Descriptors: Animation, Achievement Tests, Test Items, Psychometrics
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Chou, Ying-Chun; Chiu, Chiung-Hui – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
This study serves to develop a multidimensional scale for assessing the digital fluency of preadolescents. The researchers applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to evaluate the constancy of the classified factors and to elucidate relationships among factors in the Digital Fluency Scale. A total of 224…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Preadolescents, Computer Literacy
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Masadis, Gregory; Filippou, Filippos; Kouli, Olga; Gargalianos, Dimitris; Rokka, Stella; Bebetsos, Evangelos; Derri, Vasiliki; Damianidou, Sofia; Koupani, Aikaterini; Samara, Eleni; Siarenou, Dafni; Filippou, Dafni-Anastasia – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to carry out a preliminary validation of "Motivational Climate in Physical Education Scale" in Greek educational context and specifically in relation to elementary school students. The participants of the research were 184 (101 male and 83 female) students of grades 5th and 6th from four elementary schools, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Brännström, Karl Jonas; Karjalainen, Suvi; Sahlén, Birgitta; Andersson, Ketty; Lyberg-Åhlander, Viveka; Christensson, Jonas – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2022
The present study reports on the development of a questionnaire that evaluates children's experiences of their physical classroom environment, activities and interactions. It also explores the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and how acoustical characteristics of the classroom, class size and student characteristics (age, sex and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Classroom Environment, Learning Activities
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Özkale, Ufuk; Kanadli, Sedat – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This study classifies the verbal feedback of science teachers into praise statements, effort-based feedback statements, negative feedback statements, and ability-based statements, which are also regarded as feedback strategies. The study aims to investigate the feedback strategies used by science teachers in the classroom setting using descriptive…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Science Teachers, Classroom Environment, Positive Reinforcement
Becker, Stephen P.; Mossing, Kandace W.; Zoromski, Allison K.; Vaughn, Aaron J.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Tamm, Leanne; Burns, G. Leonard – Grantee Submission, 2020
To advance the research examining the sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) construct, a key priority has been to develop assessment tools that are reliable and valid. The current study builds upon existing work by conducting the most thorough psychometric evaluation to date of the teacher-reported Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory (CABI) SCT and…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention, Elementary School Students
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AL-Qadri, Abdo Hasan; Zhao, Wei – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Developmental learning difficulties are among the prevalent exceptionalities school learners have today. In this regard, identification and placement are among the facilitators of later successful intervention for these groups of learners (WestOlatunji, Shure, Pringle, Adams, Lewis & Cholewa, 2010). However, there are not enough resources such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Learning Problems, Test Construction
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