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Approaches to Studying in Higher Education Portuguese Students: A Portuguese Version of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students
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Valadas, Sandra A. T. S.; Goncalves, Fernando R.; Faisca, Luis – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
This paper examines the validity of the "Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students--short version" (ASSIST; Tait et al. in "Improving student learning: Improving students as learners", 1998), to be used with Portuguese undergraduate students. The ASSIST was administrated to 566 students, in order to analyse a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Tools, Higher Education, Test Validity
Assessing the Approaches to Learning of Nigerian Students.
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Watkins, David; Akande, Adebowale – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1992
A study investigated the reliability and validity of the Study Process Questionnaire (Biggs) for 352 undergraduates in a Nigerian university. Although it was found that the concepts involved were relevant to this population and scales and subscales had adequate internal consistency, cross-cultural comparison of scores was problematic. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Using Teacher Ratings to Determine If the Learning Disabled Are Ready for the Regular Classroom.
Greenwood, L. K.; Morton, L. L. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1989
Evaluation of a checklist by teachers to rate 60 secondary level learning-disabled and nondisabled students for mainstream competencies found no overall mean group differences and no inter-rater reliability, though ratings on work habits did predict course grades for all three groups (fully mainstreamed, partially mainstreamed, and nondisabled).…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Grades (Scholastic), Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
First Steps in the Development of the "Inventario de Comportamiento de Estudio": The Spanish Version of the "Study Behavior Inventory."
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Bliss, Leonard B.; And Others – 1996
The Inventario de Comportamiento de Estudio (ICE), a Spanish translation of the Study Behavior Inventory (SBI) was developed and tested using a group of 594 undergraduate students from randomly selected classes at a private comprehensive university in Mexico. Both instruments were designed to assess the study behaviors of students in institutions…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bilingual Education, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
The Young Children's Computer Inventory: A Likert Scale for Assessing Attitudes Related to Computers in Instruction.
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Miyashita, Keiko; Knezek, Gerald – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1992
The Young Children's Computer Inventory is a Likert-type survey instrument designed for use by first grade students at home or in schools. Addresses the historical antecedents of the instrument, reports construct validity and reliability based upon pilot tests in the United States and Japan, and provides recommendations for the practitioner with…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Creativity, Elementary School Students