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Mercier, Kevin; Silverman, Stephen – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to develop an instrument that has scores that are valid and reliable for measuring students' attitudes toward fitness testing. Method: The method involved the following steps: (a) an elicitation study, (b) item development, (c) a pilot study, and (d) a validation study. The pilot study included 427…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Measurement Techniques, Program Validation
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Woodman, Geoffrey F.; Luck, Steven J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
In many theories of cognition, researchers propose that working memory and perception operate interactively. For example, in previous studies researchers have suggested that sensory inputs matching the contents of working memory will have an automatic advantage in the competition for processing resources. The authors tested this hypothesis by…
Descriptors: Memory, Hypothesis Testing, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Measurement
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Samuelstuen, Marit S.; Braten, Ivar; Valas, Harald – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2007
This study examined contextual effects in Norwegian 10th-grade students' reports on cognitive and metacognitive strategies when using the Cross-Curricular Competencies (CCC) instrument. The CCC was first administered as the final task in a long (three-hour) testing session in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Program for…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Student Evaluation, Cognitive Measurement
Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Dionne, Gary B.; Kaiser, William J. – Online Submission, 2006
Our research question was whether we could develop a feasible technique, using Bayesian networks, to diagnose gaps in student knowledge. Thirty-four college-age participants completed tasks designed to measure conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge, and problem-solving skills related to circuit analysis. A Bayesian network was used to model…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Feasibility Studies, Bayesian Statistics, Prediction
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Narrol, Harvey; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
The effectiveness of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment program (FIE) in improving the cognitive performance of slow learners was tested for one year with low performing vocational high school students in Ontario (Canada). Improved cognitive performance was noted for FIE students, although changes in personality and attitude were substantiated…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Innovation