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Durak, Ismail; Karagoz, Yalcin – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
The aim of this study is to adapt the Statistics Anxiety Scale (SAS) developed by Vigil-Colet et al. (2008) to Turkish. This study is expected to fill an important gap in the literature since no valid and reliable specific statistics anxiety scale developed or adapted in Turkish for undergraduate students in the literature is available. The sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affective Measures, Statistics, Mathematics Anxiety
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Alamer, Abdullah – Educational Psychology, 2021
The present study aimed to empirically examine the validity of grit among language learners and its relation to vocabulary knowledge. Grit is defined as a trait that is characterised by a tendency to be passionate about and persevere towards the achievement of long-term goals. A newly developed questionnaire, L2-Grit Scale, which assesses…
Descriptors: Persistence, Self Motivation, Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students
Young, Adena E.; Worrell, Frank C. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2018
Two studies were conducted to examine and compare the construct validity of scores on the Junior Metacognition Awareness Inventory (JMAI) and problem-solving interview protocols. Participants consisted of 183 middle and high school students attending a university summer program for academically talented youth. Study 1 results indicated that JMAI…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Metacognition, Mathematics Instruction, Academically Gifted
Soine, Karen M.; Lumpe, Andrew – Teacher Development, 2014
The primary purpose of the study was to create and psychometrically test an instrument which measured teachers' perceptions of characteristics of professional development. The sample consisted of elementary teachers from five school districts in Washington State participating in a district improvement initiative. Results of exploratory factor…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Psychometrics, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Johnson, Paul A. – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
The purpose of this study was to establish the content, construct, and predictive validity of the Effective Board Leadership Practices Survey (EBLPS). The EBLPS was designed to measure the leadership practices of boards of education that support student achievement. A literature review identified 12 board leadership practices supportive of student…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Academic Achievement, Leadership, Correlation
Heneman, Herbert G., III; Kimball, Steven; Milanowski, Anthony – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2006
The present study contributes to knowledge of the construct validity of the short form of the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (and by extension, given their similar content and psychometric properties, to the long form). The authors' research involves: (1) examining the psychometric properties of the TSES on a large sample of elementary, middle,…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Teaching Experience, Secondary School Teachers, Psychometrics
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Westbrook, Bert; Sloan, Stephanie – Journal of Career Assessment, 2006
A longitudinal design was used to test the hypotheses that career development indices account for significant amounts of variance in the prediction of high school success, and account for unique variance beyond that of academic predictors of high school success. The participants included 188 11th-grade students who were followed-up in the 12th…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Grade Point Average, Grade 12, Grade 12
Artino, Anthony R., Jr. – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed overview of the development and initial validation of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). The MSLQ is an 81-item, self-report instrument designed to measure college students' motivational orientations and their use of various learning strategies (Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, &…
Descriptors: Investigations, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Measures (Individuals)