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Reliability and Validity Evidence of the Chinese Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale Scores among Taiwanese Children
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Flahive, Mon-hsin Wang; Chuang, Ying-Chih; Li, Chien-Mo – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2011
The Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale-Second Edition (Piers-Harris 2) was designed to measure self-concept among children and adolescents. This study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the scores of the Chinese version of the Piers-Harris 2 (Chinese Piers-Harris). The Chinese Piers-Harris 2 was administered to 243 Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Test Validity, Rating Scales, Self Concept Measures
Gender Differences of Children's Developmental Trajectory from 6 to 60 Months in the Taiwan Birth Cohort Pilot Study
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Lung, For-Wey; Chiang, Tung-Liang; Lin, Shio-Jean; Feng, Jui-Ying; Chen, Po-Fei; Shu, Bih-Ching – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The parental report instrument is the most efficient developmental detection method and has shown high validity with professional assessment instruments. The reliability and validity of the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study (TBCS) 6-, 18- and 36-month scales have already been established. In this study, the reliability and validity of the 60-month scale…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Predictive Validity, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
A Rasch-Based Validation of the Hooper Visual Organization Test in Chinese-Speaking Children
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Wuang, Yee-Pay; Wang, Li-Chen; Su, Chwen-Yng – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The aim of this study was to examine the validation of the Hooper Visual Organization Test (HVOT) for use in children by testing for item fit, unidimensionality, item hierarchy, reliability, and screening capacity. A modified scoring system was devised for the HVOT so that children received some credit for being able to describe the function of…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Down Syndrome, Scoring, Item Response Theory
Validation of the Tutotest in a Hybrid Problem-Based Learning Curriculum
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Leung, Kai-Kuen; Wang, Wei-Dean – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
The Tutotest is one of the few structured instruments developed for the assessment of students' learning skills in a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum. This study was designed to validate the Tutotest in a hybrid PBL curriculum. Forty-four tutors completed 370 evaluations on second to fourth year medical students at the end of the first…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Evaluation, Medical Schools, Problem Based Learning
An Assessment of Science Teachers' Perceptions of Secondary School Environments in Taiwan
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Huang, Shwu-yong L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
This study investigates the psychosocial environments of secondary schools from science teachers' perspectives, as well as associated variables. Using a sample of 900 secondary science teachers from 52 schools in Taiwan, the results attest to the validity and reliability of the instrument, the Science Teacher School Environment Questionnaire, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Test Validity
An Investigation of Taiwanese Early Adolescents' Self-Evaluations Concerning the Big 6 Information Problem-Solving Approach
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Chang, Chiung-Sui – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2007
The study developed a Big 6 Information Problem-Solving Scale (B61PS), including the subscales of task definition and information-seeking strategies, information access and synthesis, and evaluation. More than 1,500 fifth and sixth graders in Taiwan responded. The study revealed that the scale showed adequate reliability in assessing the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Early Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Establishing Test Form and Individual Task Comparability: A Case Study of a Semi-Direct Speaking Test
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Weir, Cyril J.; Wu, Jessica R. W. – Language Testing, 2006
Examination boards are often criticized for their failure to provide evidence of comparability across forms, and few such studies are publicly available. This study aims to investigate the extent to which three forms of the General English Proficiency Test Intermediate Speaking Test (GEPTS-I) are parallel in terms of two types of validity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Format, Speech Communication, Check Lists
Learning Organization. Symposium.
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2002
This symposium on the learning organization is comprised of three papers. "Leading the Learning Organization" (James R. Johnson) examines actions that four leaders of widely diverse organizations took to transform an organization into a learning organization. (Leaders who were successful in implementing the learning organization concept…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Behavior, Developing Nations, Educational Background