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Sun, Jun; Willson, Victor L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
This article proposes a multilevel modeling approach to study the general and specific attitudes formed in human learning behavior. Based on the premises of activity theory, it conceptualizes the unit of analysis for attitude measurement as a scalable and evolving activity system rather than a single action. Measurement issues related to this…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Psychometrics, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Attitude Measures
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Sparfeldt, Jorn R.; Schilling, Susanne R.; Rost, Detlef H.; Thiel, Alexandra – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
The notion of item context effects implies that psychometric properties of an item or scale are altered by the presentation format, for example, blocked versus randomized. In an experimental study with high school students, the experimental group (n = 407) answered a four-dimensional academic self-concept questionnaire, in which the items were…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Self Concept, Questionnaires, Reliability