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Lewis, Daniel M.; Savickas, Mark L. – Journal of Career Assessment, 1995
Usable data from 214 of 227 college students who completed the Career Factors Inventory (CFI), Career Choice Status Inventory, Vocational Identity Scale, and Career Development Inventory demonstrated the CFI's construct validity through correlations with age and years in school. Concurrent validity was supported by correlations with career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity
Overton, Terry; Apperson, Jennifer – Diagnostique, 1989
The Cognitive Levels Test (CLT) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) were administered to 30 freshman college students at a small state college in the mid-Atlantic region. Significant correlations indicate that the PPVT-R measures a component of the CLT. Mean PPVT-R scores were significantly higher than CLT means. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, College Students, Concurrent Validity

Kaplan, David M.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1995
Explores the validity of the Subjective Unit of Discomfort (SUD), which monitors changes in anxiety levels during the application of systematic desensitization to phobias, by correlating it with established instruments of the state of anxiety. Given the limitation of the absence of an anxiety-provoking situation, this study provides empirical data…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Higher Education

Lassiter, Kerry S.; Bell, Nancy L.; Hutchinson, Melody B.; Matthews, T. Darin – Psychology in the Schools, 2001
Examines the concurrent validity of the General Ability Measure for Adults (GAMA) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition (WAIS-III). A comparison of the sample's mean scores indicates similar GAMA and WAIS-III Performance IQ scores. In contrast, the sample's mean GAMA IQ score was significantly lower than the sample's mean Full…
Descriptors: College Students, Concurrent Validity, Higher Education, Intelligence Tests

Osipow, Samuel H.; Gati, Itamar – Journal of Career Assessment, 1998
Responses from 403 college students on the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDMDQ) revealed a positive correlation between the CDMDQ and the Career Decision Scale (CDS) and negative correlation of these two scales with the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSES). Undecided students had significantly higher CDMDQ and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity
Mayton, Daniel M., II; Richel, Timothy W.; Susnjic, Silvia; Majdanac, Maja – 2002
The Teenage Nonviolence Test (TNT) has previously been established as a generally reliable and valid measure of nonviolence in adolescents. This study examined the extent to which the TNT's reliability and validity could be extended to college students aged 18-22 years of age. Five of the six subscales of the TNT were found to be reliable. The…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Higher Education

Balistreri, Elizabeth; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1995
A new self-report identity inventory was developed that avoids some of the shortcomings of previous measures and offers the advantages of short completion time, objective scoring, and separate, continuous exploration and commitment scores. Three samples of college students were utilized, and evidence was presented of moderately high reliability…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, College Students, Concurrent Validity

O'Hare, Thomas; Sherrer, Margaret V. – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1997
Studied the relationship of alcohol expectancies to college drinking domains in 315 college students. Results demonstrate the concurrent validity of the College Alcohol Problem Scale with three subscales of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire and the Drinking Context Scale. Implications for prevention and early intervention are noted. (EMK)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Drinking

Elliott, Stephen N.; DiPerna, James C. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2002
Investigated the criterion-related validity of the Academic Competence Evaluation Scales-College (ACES-College), a self-report measure of academic competence. Using comparisons to grade point average and college admission test scores, found good evidence for its validity and ability to differentiate college students experiencing learning…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Grade Point Average

Heatherington, Laurie – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1988
Assessed the criterion validity of the Relational Communication Control Coding System. Undergraduates listened to audiotaped interactions of a pair they were told were husband and wife, or a counselor and client, each loaded with a symmetrical or complementary communication control pattern. Subjects' perceptions of the control patterns were…
Descriptors: College Students, Concurrent Validity, Counseling, Higher Education
Larsen, Knud S.; Long, Ed – 1987
While the perception of rape has been studied intensely in recent years, most scales focus on rape myths as the content domain. The need exists for a more general instrument which would include items from a variety of sources, e.g., attitudes toward rape awareness, sexual history, age, virginity, community support, etc., in addition to the myth of…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attribution Theory, College Students, Concurrent Validity
Lee, Soyoung – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1996
A study investigated the concurrent validity of the cloze test administered with an essay test to Korean university students. Subjects were 129 students enrolled in English-as-a-Second-Language courses in Korea. A seventh-word deleted cloze test and a descriptive essay test were administered. Analysis of results indicate a significant correlation…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Concurrent Validity, English (Second Language)

Metz, Dale Evan; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1997
Students who are deaf or hard of hearing (n=231) used the Language Background Questionnaire (LBQ) to self assess their sign language and spoken communication skills. Formal independent estimates of these skills were also conducted. Comparison of results indicates a high degree of congruence between the self and formal assessments, which…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Concurrent Validity, Deafness
Tapia, Martha; Marsh, George E., II – 2003
This study examined the concurrent validity of the Emotional Intelligence Inventory (M. Tapia, 2001) and the Emotional Intelligence Scale (N. Schutte and others, 1998). The responses to the inventories of 234 college students, 84 males and 250 females, were analyzed. Correlations between the total score on the two scales were significant.…
Descriptors: College Students, Concurrent Validity, Emotional Intelligence, Higher Education

Pendergrass, Laura A.; Hansen, Jo-Ida C.; Neuman, Jody L.; Nutter, Kevin J. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2003
This study examined evidence of concurrent validity for the use of scores from the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS) with college student-athletes. Agreement between declared college major and interest scores on the CISS was calculated for male student-athletes and nonathletes. Difference between samples was nonsignificant. (Contains 22…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Higher Education
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