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A Scoping Review of Self-Report Measures of Aggression and Bullying for Use with Preadolescent Children
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Nelson, Helen J.; Kendall, Garth E.; Burns, Sharyn K.; Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2017
Bullying in schools is a major health concern throughout the world, contributing to poor educational and mental health outcomes. School nurses are well placed to facilitate the implementation and evaluation of bullying prevention strategies. To evaluate the effect of such strategies, it is necessary to measure children's behavior over time. This…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Aggression, Bullying, Child Behavior
Personal Responsibility: An Integrative Review of Conceptual and Measurement Issues of the Construct
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Mergler, Amanda – Research Papers in Education, 2017
This integrative literature review examines educational research that focuses on quantitative measurement of the construct of personal responsibility, in studies which included participants from middle childhood to young adulthood. National policies in education are increasingly concerned with values and skills that students develop through their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Responsibility, Student Development, Literature Reviews
The Impact of Accounting Education Research
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Sangster, Alan; Fogarty, Tim; Stoner, Greg; Marriott, Neil – Accounting Education, 2015
This paper presents an exploratory study into the nature and patterns of usage of accounting education research. The study adopts the most accessible metric, "Google Advanced Scholar" citations, to analyse the impact of research published in the six principal English-language accounting education journals. The analysis reveals a global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Educational Research, Use Studies
The Use of Student Ratings in Different Countries: The Applicability Paradigm.
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Marsh, Herbert W. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1987
A paradigm is described for studying the applicability of two North American instruments (the Students' Evaluation of Educational Quality and Frey's Endeavor) to other countries. Factor analyses of studies in Australia, Spain, and Papua New Guinea support the generality of the instruments' factors to the educational contexts of other countries.…
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, International Studies
Delimiting the Sydney Speech Community.
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Horvath, Barbara; Sankoff, David – Language in Society, 1987
Suggests the use of principal components analysis as an alternative solution to the problem of grouping speakers by sociological characteristics prior to quantitative analysis. An example is presented of its application to vowel variation data collected as part of a sociolinguistic survey of English in Sydney, Australia. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Classification, English, Ethnic Groups, Factor Analysis
A Longitudinal Perspective of Students' Evaluations of University Teaching: Ratings of the Same Teachers over a 13-Year Period.
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Marsh, Herbert W. – 1992
Students' evaluations of teacher effectiveness are explored as a multidimensional construct, emphasizing the Students' Evaluations of Educational Quality (SEEQ) instrument developed by H. W. Marsh (1987). An overview is presented of studies in which Marsh evaluated longitudinal data from an archive of responses to nearly 1 million SEEQ instruments…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Cohort Analysis, College Students, Factor Analysis