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Blagov, Pavel S.; Bi, Wu; Shedler, Jonathan; Westen, Drew – Assessment, 2012
The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) is a personality assessment instrument designed for use by expert clinical assessors. Critics have raised questions about its psychometrics, most notably its validity across observers and situations, the impact of its fixed score distribution on research findings, and its test-retest reliability. We…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Assessment, Psychometrics, Test Validity
Kamarulzaman, Wirawani; Nordin, Mohamad Sahari – Online Submission, 2012
This paper is intended to examine the validity of Big 5 Personality test inventory of 44 questions with 5-Likert Scale measurement. Confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) was conducted to determine the good fit indices of the 5 personality types. Those types are 1) extraversion, 2) agreeableness, 3) conscientiousness, 4) openness and 5) neuroticism.…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Personality Measures, Likert Scales, Undergraduate Students
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Schwartz, Eben S.; Chapman, Benjamin P.; Duberstein, Paul R.; Weinstock-Guttman, Bianca; Benedict, Ralph H. B. – Assessment, 2011
Personality assessment is a potentially important component of clinical and empirical work with neurological patients because (a) individual differences in personality may be associated with different neurological outcomes and (b) central nervous system changes may give rise to alteration in personality. For personality assessment to be useful to…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Patients, Neurological Impairments
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Soilevuo Gronnerod, Jarna; Gronnerod, Cato – Psychological Assessment, 2012
All available studies on the Wartegg Zeichen Test (WZT; Wartegg, 1939) were collected and evaluated through a literature overview and a meta-analysis. The literature overview shows that the history of the WZT reflects the geographical and language-based processes of marginalization where relatively isolated traditions have lived and vanished in…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews, Test Reliability
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Tobin, Michael; Hill, Eileen – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2010
An examination is made of the value of using published personality tests with young blind and partially sighted children. Based on data gathered during a longitudinal investigation into the educational and psychological development of a group of 120 visually impaired learners, the authors conclude that their own selection of a test instrument…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Blindness, Personality Traits, Children
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Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Pouga, Lydia; Grezes, Julie; Berthoz, Sylvie – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The study of endophenotypes, notably with configured self-reports, represents a promising research pathway to overcome the limits of a syndromal approach of psychiatric diseases. The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) is a self-report questionnaire, based on neuroethological considerations, that could help to assess emotional…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Questionnaires, Psychological Patterns, Psychometrics
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Chen, Guo-Hai; Watkins, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
This paper examines the stability and validity of a student evaluations of teaching (SET) instrument used by the administration at a university in the PR China. The SET scores for two semesters of courses taught by 435 teachers were collected. Total 388 teachers (170 males and 218 females) were also invited to fill out the 60-item NEO Five-Factor…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Jonason, Peter K.; Webster, Gregory D. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
There has been an exponential increase of interest in the dark side of human nature during the last decade. To better understand this dark side, the authors developed and validated a concise, 12-item measure of the Dark Triad: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism. In 4 studies involving 1,085 participants, they examined its structural…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Psychological Patterns
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Rea, Dorothy; Carter, Cecil F.; Wilkerson, Judy R.; Valesky, Thomas; Lang, William – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2011
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), through the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC), developed standards for the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for effective practice by educational leaders (CCSSO, 1996). These standards provide a viable content domain from which to assess leader cognitive and…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Standards, Professional Associations, Item Response Theory
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Calik, Muammer; Coll, Richard Kevin – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
In this paper, we describe the Scientific Habits of Mind Survey (SHOMS) developed to explore public, science teachers' and scientists' understanding of habits of mind (HoM). The instrument contained 59 items, and captures the seven SHOM identified by Gauld. The SHOM was validated by administration to two cohorts of pre-service science teachers:…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Scientific Principles, Scientific Literacy, Cognitive Processes
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Garcia-Rea, Elizabeth A.; LePage, James P. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
With the high number of homeless, there is a critical need for rapid and accurate assessment of quality of life to assess program outcomes. The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-100 has demonstrated promise in accurately assessing quality-of-life in this population. However, its length may make large scale use impractical for working with a…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Personality Assessment, Quality of Life, Test Validity
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Donnellan, M. Brent; Oswald, Frederick L.; Baird, Brendan M.; Lucas, Richard E. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
The Mini-IPIP, a 20-item short form of the 50-item International Personality Item Pool-Five-Factor Model measure (Goldberg, 1999), was developed and validated across five studies. The Mini-IPIP scales, with four items per Big Five trait, had consistent and acceptable internal consistencies across five studies (= at or well above 0.60), similar…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Test Reliability, Correlation
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Gardner, Deborah L.; Huber, Charles H.; Steiner, Robert; Vazquez, Luis A.; Savage, Todd A. – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2008
This article describes the three-stage protocol employed in development and validation of the Inventory of Family Protective Factors (IFPF), a brief-form formal instrument intended to assess the primary protective factors that contribute to family resilience. Following construction of the instrument, data collections and analyses of a total sample…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Factor Analysis, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Newgent, Rebecca A.; Parr, Patricia E.; Newman, Isadore; Higgins, Kristin K. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2004
This investigation was conducted to estimate the reliability and validity of scores on the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (D. R. Riso & R. Hudson, 1999a). Results of 287 participants were analyzed. Alpha suggests an adequate degree of internal consistency. Evidence provides mixed support for construct validity using correlational and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Test Validity, Construct Validity, Personality Measures
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Baer, Ruth A.; Smith, Gregory T.; Allen, Kristin B. – Assessment, 2004
A self-report inventory for the assessment of mindfulness skills was developed, and its psychometric characteristics and relationships with other constructs were examined. Participants included three samples of undergraduate students and a sample of outpatients with borderline personality disorder. Based on discussions of mindfulness in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychometrics, Personality, Personality Problems
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