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Igor Esnaola; Albert Sesé; Lorea Azpiazu; Yina Wang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Modelling academic self-concept through second-order factors or bifactor structures is an important issue with substantive and practical implications; besides, the bifactor model has not been analysed with a Chinese sample and cross-cultural studies in the academic self-concept are scarce. Likewise, latent structure validity evidence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Psychometrics, Validity
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Ferrando, Pere J.; Anguiano-Carrasco, Cristina; Demestre, Josep – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This article proposes a model-based procedure, intended for personality measures, for exploiting the auxiliary information provided by the certainty with which individuals answer every item (response certainty). This information is used to (a) obtain more accurate estimates of individual trait levels, and (b) provide a more detailed assessment of…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Item Response Theory, Personality Measures, Goodness of Fit
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Martínez-Fernández, J. Reinaldo; Vermunt, Jan D. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The aim of this study was to analyse and compare the learning patterns of higher education students from Spain and three Latin-American countries (Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela). For this purpose Vermunt's Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS) was translated into Spanish and tested. The participants were 456 undergraduates enrolled in a teacher…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Guidelines, Latin Americans, Cognitive Style
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Casas, Ferran; Sarriera, Jorge Castella; Alfaro, Jaime; Gonzalez, Monica; Malo, Sara; Bertran, Irma; Figuer, Cristina; da Cruz, Daniel Abs; Bedin, Livia; Paradiso, Angela; Weinreich, Karin; Valdenegro, Boris – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The 7-item adult version of the Personal Wellbeing scale (Cummins et al. Social Indic Res 64:159-190, 2003) was administered to two samples of adolescents aged 12-16 in Brazil (N = 1,588) and Spain (N = 2,900), and to a sample of adolescents aged 14-16 in Chile (N = 843). The results obtained were analyzed to determine its psychometric…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Reliability, Factor Structure, Adolescents
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Toral, S. L.; Barrero, F.; Martinez-Torres, M. R.; Gallardo, S.; Duran, M. J. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
The prevailing tendency in modern university reforms is towards "how people learn," following a learner-centered approach in which the learner is the main actor of the teaching-learning process. As a consequence, one of the key indicators of the teaching-learning process is the measurement of learner satisfaction within the classroom.…
Descriptors: Surveys, Course Descriptions, Science Instruction, Structural Equation Models