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Alley, Gordon R.; And Others – 1980
The reliability and validity of the Modified Component Disability Checklist were examined with five secondary learning disabled (LD) teachers, 21 low achieving students, and 21 LD students in grades 7, 8, and 9. During Phase I, teachers matched the component disability to the target behavior; and in Phase II teachers were told to judge each target…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Check Lists, Handicap Identification
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Siu, Andrew M. H.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2005
This paper reports evidence on the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Chinese Family Assessment Instrument (C-FAI), an instrument developed to assess family functioning in Chinese populations. A convenience sample of 1,462 adolescents from junior secondary schools completed the C-FAI and measures of parent-adolescent conflict.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Factor Structure, Conflict
Valentino, Beth Anne M. – 1978
A study was undertaken (1) to determine if a relationship existed between preadolescents' levels of reading comprehension as defined by T. C. Barrett's Taxonomy of Reading Comprehension and their levels of moral development according to Lawrence Kohlberg's stage sequence and (2) to discover if females demonstrated higher levels of reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Moral Development
Flanagan, Constance A.; Syvertsen, Amy K.; Stout, Michael D. – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2007
The goal of this project was to produce a set of civic measures with sound psychometric properties appropriate for use with young people ages 12-18. Measures selected tap aspects of adolescent civic behaviors, opinions, knowledge, and dispositions. The measures are easy to administer and can be used by educators, staff of community-based…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Citizenship Education, Student Participation, Adolescents
Alley, Gordon R.; And Others – 1980
The study investigated the reliability and validity of professional groups using the Modified Component Disability Instrument to identify/evaluate learning disabled (LD) adolescents. Ss included 166 LD teachers, speech clinicians, remedial reading teachers, school psychologists, school principals, and school counselors. Calculations were made for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Check Lists, Evaluation Criteria