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Kuril, Samvet; Maun, Deepak; Chand, Vijaya Sherry – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: The role of Teacher Innovative Behavior (TIB), in responding to systemic problems in educational systems and promoting "intrapreneurial" behavior has been recognized in recent times. A robust instrument that can help administrators and teacher educators gauge the levels of TIB among their teachers will facilitate the promotion…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Behavior, Educational Innovation, Measurement Techniques
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Sirnoorkar, Amogh; Mazumdar, Anwesh; Kumar, Arvind – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We elaborate on a new approach of assessing content-based epistemic clarity of college physics students in terms of their ability to discriminate between different epistemic warrants for propositions in a chained argument in physics. A threefold classification (nominal, physical, and mathematical) of warrants is used, with each class split into a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, College Science, Measurement Techniques
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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
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Venkatesh, Sumathi; Weatherspoon, Lorraine J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Dietary acculturation (adopting the eating patterns/practices of the host environment) of individuals who relocate to another country could be a risk factor for diet-related chronic diseases. A reliable and validated measure for the assessment of dietary acculturation may facilitate understanding of the relationship between dietary acculturation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Dietetics
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Yousaf, Anish; Mishra, Abhishek; Bashir, Makhmoor – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Oversupply of higher education services in emerging countries, like India, implies an ever-increasing cost of student acquisition despite large student populations. Hence, creating trust through effective service delivery supported with full institutional commitment remains the only way to create student loyalty and bring the subsequent…
Descriptors: Reputation, Trust (Psychology), Developing Nations, Costs
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Mathur, Anil; Barak, Benny; Zhang, Yong; Lee, Keun S. – Journal of Applied Measurement, 2001
Applied a procedure to assess measurement invariance across cultures developed by J. Steenkamp and H. Baumgartner (1998) to a scale to measure cognitive age using data collected in India (n=195), China (n=250), and Korea (n=251). Results from confirmatory factor analyses indicate that the technique provides a valuable tool to assess measurement…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Intelligence