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Download full textCarine Jonker; Marien Alet Graham; Liesel Ebersöhn – South African Journal of Education, 2024
With this article we aimed to contribute evidence on reliable and valid measurement of teacher resilience in an under-researched African context and population. Scales from an existing instrument, ENTREEi, were used to measure the resilience of pre-service teachers at a South African university. The sample constituted 1,193 final-year pre-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Resilience (Psychology), Self Efficacy
Direct linkvan Wyk, Mariza; Lipinska, Gosia; Henry, Michelle; Phillips, Tyler K.; van der Walt, P. Etienne – International Journal of Testing, 2022
Resilience comprises various neurobiological, developmental, and psychosocial components. However, existing measures lack certain critical components, while having limited utility in low-to-middle-income settings. We aimed to develop a reliable and valid measure of resilience encompassing a broad range of components and that can be used across…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Resilience (Psychology), Measures (Individuals)
van Rensburg, Clarisse; Mostert, Karina – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
Student well-being has gradually become a topic of interest in higher education, and the accurate, valid, and reliable measure of well-being constructs is crucial in the South African context. This study examined item bias and configural, metric and scalar invariance of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) for South African first-year…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, College Freshmen
Coetzee, Wilma – Perspectives in Education, 2022
A lack of understanding of statistics, and being unable to apply its techniques, not only has a negative impact on the pass rates of students studying introductory statistics, but also affects the potential usefulness of these students when they enter the marketplace. I report here a novel scale developed to measure various factors that may be…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Introductory Courses, Questionnaires, At Risk Students
Celeste Combrinck – SAGE Open, 2024
We have less time and focus than ever before, while the demand for attention is increasing. Therefore, it is no surprise that when answering questionnaires, we often choose to strongly agree or be neutral, producing problematic and unusable data. The current study investigated forced-choice (ipsative) format compared to the same questions on a…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Test Format, Surveys, Design
Kapp, Adéle; Mostert, Karina; de Beer, Leon – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2020
South African universities have one of the lowest graduation rates in the world, especially amongst first-year university students. South Africa's first-year university students are taxed with tremendous challenges. One of the most important amongst these challenges is considered to be academic motivation, which is strongly related to students'…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, College Freshmen
Tyrone B. Pretorius; P. Paul Heppner; Anita Padmanabhanunni; Serena Ann Isaacs – SAGE Open, 2023
In previous studies, problem solving appraisal has been identified as playing a key role in promoting positive psychological well-being. The Problem Solving Inventory is the most widely used measure of problem solving appraisal and consists of 32 items. The length of the instrument, however, may limit its applicability to large-scale surveys…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Item Response Theory
Willem C. van Wyk; Gary W. Collins; Maria M. Swanepoel – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
Journalism's societal role hinges on effective communication, demanding proficient language skills. This study assesses a South African University of Technology's Department of Journalism, probing existing selection methods' efficacy in predicting success in two English modules. Concerns persist about these methods accurately identifying students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Journalism Education, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
Simons, Mathea; Coetzee, Stephen; Baeten, Marlies; Schmulian, Astrid – Learning Environments Research, 2020
Team teaching is a teaching model in which teachers work collaboratively in the preparation, teaching and evaluation of a course. Literature suggests that team teaching potentially provides rich and varied lessons, increased support and learning gains. However, team teaching possibly also could cause some confusion. To support the implementation…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teacher Collaboration, Test Construction, Student Attitudes
Mkhize, Msizi Vitalis – South African Journal of Education, 2019
Pre-service accounting teachers perform a variety of calculations in accounting courses, for example, they calculate and compare company financial ratios, calculate dividends, interests, and variances. Mathematics is thus a crucial tool for performing accounting calculations. This paper reports on a study designed in order to investigate…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Preservice Teachers, Accounting, Computation
Mnguni, Lindelani – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Purpose: The significance of visuo-semiotic models in biology education has increased. Students have to develop visuo-semiotic skills, which could enable them to learn biology effectively. However, a lack of a universal theory of visual literacy has made it challenging to develop and assess visualization skills, including visuo-semiotic skills.…
Descriptors: Biology, Test Construction, Visual Literacy, Semiotics
Simelane-Mnisi, Sibongile; Mji, Andile – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: The Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST Short Version) was used to better understand the students' approaches to learning in a mathematics classes. Method: Quantitave method was used in this study. Participants were 345 first and second year mathematics students from a university in the Gauteng province of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Questionnaires
Abubakar, Amina; van de Vijver, Fons; Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar; He, Jia; Adams, Byron; Aldhafri, Said; Aydinli-Karakulak, Arzu; Arasa, Josephine; Boer, Diana; Celenk, Ozgur; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Ferreira, Maria Cristina; Fischer, Ronald; Mbebeb, Fomba Emmanuel; Frías, María Teresa; Fresno, Andrés; Gillath, Omri; Harb, Charles; Handani, Penny; Hapunda, Given; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kosic, Marianna; Looh, Joseph Lah; Mazrui, Lubna; Mendia, Rafael Emilio; Murugami, Margaret; Mason-Li, Mei; Pandia, Weny Savitry; Perdomo, Cristina; Schachner, Maja; Sim, Samantha; Spencer, Rosario; Suryani, Angela; Tair, Ergyul – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
There is hardly any cross-cultural research on the measurement invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scales (BMSLSS). The current article evaluates the measurement invariance of the BMSLSS across cultural contexts. This cross-sectional study sampled 7,739 adolescents and emerging adults in 23 countries. A multi-group…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Attitude Measures, Adolescents, Young Adults
Coetzee, Melinde – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This study reports the development and validation of the Graduate Skills and Attributes Scale which was initially administered to a random sample of 272 third-year-level and postgraduate-level, distance-learning higher education students. The data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis. In a second study, the scale was administered to a…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Test Reliability, Test Validity, Construct Validity
Young, Charles; Campbell, Megan – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2014
This article provides GP-CORE norms for a South African university sample, which are compared to published data obtained from a United Kingdom university sample. The measure appears to be both reliable and valid for this multilingual and multicultural South African sample. The profiles of the psychological distress reported by white South African…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Comparative Analysis, Psychological Needs
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