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Berding, Florian; Masemann, Maike; Rebmann, Karin; Paechter, Manuela – World Journal of Education, 2016
The Thinking Styles Inventories (TSI) are questionnaires for assessing individual preferences in constructing knowledge. This paper identifies several problems concerning their validity, which range from an inadequate use of factor analysis, to missing information on the measurement model, to findings indicating a low discrimination between the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Factor Analysis
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Husfeldt, Vera – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
The process of educational expansion and the demographic process of generational replacement would have ongoing liberalization effects and therefore lead to a growth of ethnic tolerance. This was the prediction of Hyman and Sheatsley stated in 1956. Nearly half a century later there is little empirical evidence for a rising support of the…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Family Characteristics, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants