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Fong, Carlton J.; Lee, Jihyun; Krou, Megan R.; Hoff, Meagan A.; Johnston-Ashton, Karen; Gonzales, Cassandra; Beretvas, S. Natasha – Journal of Experimental Education, 2023
The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI; Weinstein et al., "Learning and study strategies inventory." H&H Publishing, 1987) is a prominent instrument used in thousands of institutions worldwide as an educational and research tool. Despite its widespread prevalence, there are inconsistencies regarding the underlying latent…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Factor Structure, Learning Strategies, Measures (Individuals)
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Gezer, Melehat – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
This study aimed to scrutinize the scales used in citizenship education in Turkey through thematic content analysis. In the study, all of the scales developed/adapted within the scope of citizenship education without a year limitation were reviewed and 56 scales found in these studies were evaluated. The document analysis was used as the method of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Construct Validity
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Eisenberg, Alona; Ignatjeva, Svetlana; Ilisko, Dzintra; Rauckiene-Michaelsson, Alona – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2018
Survival of organizations nowadays depends on their ability to learn properly and quickly increase their efficiency and their performance and to adapt to the changing environment. Creating an organizational learning culture (OLC) could achieve an increase in the survivability of organizations. This paper examines the OLC questionnaire, the…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Questionnaires, Employee Attitudes, Efficiency
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King, Ronnel B.; McInerney, Dennis M. – Educational Psychologist, 2014
Culture influences basic motivational processes; however, Western theories of achievement motivation seem to have neglected the role of culture. They are inadequate when trying to explain student motivation and engagement across a wide range of cultural groups because they may not have the conceptual tools needed to handle culturally relevant…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Cultural Influences, Educational Theories, Educational Psychology
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Musa, Ahmad S. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
A review of the nursing and health-related literature on spirituality revealed that no valid and reliable research tool exists in Arabic for measuring spiritual beliefs and practices for Arab Muslim population. This study translated the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale (SIBS) into Arabic and examined the psychometric properties of the…
Descriptors: Muslims, Nursing Education, Factor Analysis, College Students
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Gustafsson, Jan-Eric. – Intelligence, 1984
This study was designed to test the reliability of five major models of the structure of cognitive abilities. A battery of 16 tests was administered to 1000 Swedish sixth graders. Based on the results, a three-level hierarchical LISREL-based model (the HILI-model) is suggested. (Author/EGS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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Schofield, Margot J.; Mishra, Gita D. – Gerontologist, 2003
Examines the reliability and validity of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS) for the early identification of elder abuse. Results confirmed the VASS factor structure and construct validity. The Vulnerability and Coercion factors held the strongest face and construct validity for physical and psychological abuse. (Contains 52…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Elder Abuse, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
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Moore, Kathleen A.; Mellor, David J. – School Psychology International, 2003
This study aims to ascertain the underlying factor structure of students' social interactions on scores on the Social Interaction Questionnaire (SIQ). Two independent factors emerged from the data: social/popular and confident/studious. There were no gender differences on these factors in the current data. Confirmation of the current factor…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Trapnell, Paul – 1992
It is proposed that common variance among Factor V personality traits might best be modeled in terms of three broad and distinct subdomains one level below the superordinate level of the so-called Big Five. Three studies are reported that point toward this compromise conception of the top of Factor V as Absorption (A), Intellectance (I), and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Walkey, Frank H.; Green, Dianne E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
Six sets of data from previous studies are used to investigate the factor structure of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. In all 6 sets, the 22 inventory items divided between 2 clearly replicable factors. The larger, the Core of Burnout Factor, divides in turn into two equally replicable factors. (SLD)
Descriptors: Burnout, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Ivison, David – Psychological Test Bulletin, 1990
Research on the standardization, reliability, validity, factor structure, and subtests of the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) (1945) and its revised version (1987) is reviewed. Much research relating to the WMS appears to be relevant to the revised version. Use of the instrument in Australia is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Factor Structure
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