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Boqiong-Tian; Renhong-Shen; Rujun-Huang; Su Qiong-Xu – SAGE Open, 2024
The study aimed to explore the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale for Children with Disabilities (FRAS-CWD). Due to the complexity of family resilience and the particularity of disabilities, there is a lack of reliable and valid tools to evaluate family resilience for…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Family Characteristics, Resilience (Psychology), Measures (Individuals)
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Mahdi Ghorbankhani; Keyvan Salehi – SAGE Open, 2025
Academic procrastination, the tendency to delay academic tasks without reasonable justification, has significant implications for students' academic performance and overall well-being. To measure this construct, numerous scales have been developed, among which the Academic Procrastination Scale (APS) has shown promise in assessing academic…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Time Management, Foreign Countries
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María-Paula Rodríguez-Rojas; Ana-María Ramírez-Segura; Pedro Valenzuela-Mora; Julien Dampuré; Fernando Riveros Munévar – SAGE Open, 2024
Critical thinking stands out as one of the most important cognitive abilities needed for effective adaptation to a knowledge-based society in the 21st century. Despite its significance, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the conceptual and methodological frameworks for measuring it. This study aimed to design and validate a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Test Validity
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Min-Ying Tsai – SAGE Open, 2024
The study aimed to explore the Chinese version of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale suitable for gifted junior high school students and to classify the types of perfectionism. The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale was translated into Chinese to evaluate the factor structure and typology of academically gifted students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Sana Tibi; Ashley A. Edwards; John R. Kirby; Soheil H. Salha – SAGE Open, 2024
Reading anxiety measures are newly available in English, but none is available in Arabic. The goals of the present study were to adapt the English Reading Anxiety in College Students (RACS) scale to Arabic-speaking college students (RACS-Arabic), evaluate its reliability and other psychometric properties in comparison to the English US sample, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reading, Arabic, Translation
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Min-Ying Tsai – SAGE Open, 2025
The study aimed to verify the psychometric properties of the emotional-style scale and explore different clusters of emotional styles. An emotional style scale was completed in three districts of western Taiwan using stratified random sampling. The study confirmed the reliability and convergent validity of each subscale in a sample of 712…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Classification, Psychological Patterns
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Salim Nabhan; Anita Habók – SAGE Open, 2025
As the integration of digital technologies continues to shape academic landscapes, assessing digital literacy in the context of academic writing becomes paramount. Several instruments and frameworks are available for measuring digital literacy and examining it from different perspectives; however, none are suitable for measuring the digital…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Measures (Individuals)
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Ricardo Sanmartín; Marco A. García-Luna; Juan M. Cortell-Tormo; María Vicent-Juan; Nelson Otañez-Enriquez; José M. García-Fernández – SAGE Open, 2024
The Achievement Goal Theory has been commonly used in the literature and the relation between the goal orientation construct and aspects of athletes' personality and well-being is an important element to be considered in the sports field. The objectives of this study were: (i) to confirm the reliability, factorial invariance and existence of…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Factor Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Goal Orientation
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Guillermo Durán-González; Mónica Panes-Martínez; Ricardo Monge-Rogel; Luis Gibran Juárez-Hernández – SAGE Open, 2023
Digital Learning Resources (DLRs) have the function of facilitating learning; however, the evaluation regarding their functionality is limited since there are few tools for this purpose. Of these, the instrument that stands out is "Perception of the use of Digital Learning Resources in Statistics" (IPDLR-S), which allows for evaluating…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Student Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Statistics Education
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Juhi Kamakoty; Sandeep Singh – SAGE Open, 2023
This paper studies the service quality (SQ) of higher education institutes (HEI), offering professional courses from the perspective of faculty as they are the service providers as well as a major stakeholder in the educational arena. PHEISQUAL (Professional higher education institute service quality) scale has been developed to measure the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
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Lakaev, Natasha – SAGE Open, 2022
Rasch Analysis suggested the Lakaev Academic Stress Response Scale-1 (LASRS-1) would benefit from refinement by the addition of items and changes to the wording of other items. It was named the LASRS-2 and contained Four Domains (Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Physiological). Rasch Model Analysis tested construct validity and internal…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Stress Variables
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Mafratoglu, Recepali; Altinay, Fahriye; Koç, Ahmet; Dagli, Gokmen; Altinay, Zehra – SAGE Open, 2023
This research aims to develop a school improvement scale determining the current levels and obtaining data for improvement. The need for a valid and reliable scale in process-oriented school improvement studies makes this research important. Based on a sample of 1,043 teachers in Bursa in 2021, the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value was 0.97; the Bartlett…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Educational Quality
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Çetin Toraman; Günes Korkmaz – SAGE Open, 2023
Understanding education and schooling has always been of great importance for researchers and for the society in digital era. The changing conditions and ever-growing situations in education have also impacted on the meaning that the students attribute to schools, especially after the pandemic. This study aims to develop a measurement tool that…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Attitude Measures
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Reyes-Reyes, Alejandro; Calzadilla-Núñez, Aracelis; Torres-Martínez, Pilar; Díaz-Calzadilla, Patricia; Pastén-Hidalgo, Wilson; Bracho-Milic, Fanny; Díaz-Narváez, Víctor – SAGE Open, 2021
Currently, the most common measurement of empathy is obtained using scales that offer a continuum between a minimum and a maximum value. The objectives of this study were to establish a norm and estimate cut-off points that would make it possible to assess the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) version for Health Professions students (HPS-version),…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Empathy, Psychometrics, Cutting Scores
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Asempapa, Bridget; Asempapa, Reuben S. – SAGE Open, 2019
This study provides the development phases and initial psychometric evaluation of the Integrated Care Competency Scale (ICCS) with sample (n = 243). Specifically, quantitative methods with graduate counseling students were used in this study. The ICCS through a three-phase study process was honed to 65 items and broadly assesses graduate…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Content Validity, Test Reliability, Psychometrics