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Docherty, Meagan; Gullan, Rebecca Lakin; Phillips, Russell E., III – Journal of College Student Development, 2018
Attending college is a common experience in the United States, with about 7.1 million students projected to enroll in public 4-year colleges and universities in Fall 2018, and institutions expecting to award 1.9 million bachelor's degrees for the 2018-2019 academic year. Because college represents a significant investment of money and time and…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Mentors, College Students, Factor Analysis
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Sarikaya, Esma Emmioglu; Ok, Ahmet; Aydin, Yesim Capa; Schau, Candace – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This study examines factorial structure and the gender invariance of the Turkish version of the Survey of Attitudes toward Statistics (SATS-36). The SATS-36 has 36 items measuring six components: affect, cognitive competence, value, difficulty, effort, and interest. Data were collected from 347 university students. Results showed that the Turkish…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, College Students, Measures (Individuals)
Liu, Haiyan; Jin, Ick Hoon; Zhang, Zhiyong – Grantee Submission, 2018
Psychologists are interested in whether friends and couples share similar personalities or not. However, no statistical models are readily available to test the association between personalities and social relations in the literature. In this study, we develop a statistical model for analyzing social network data with the latent personality traits…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Social Networks, Personality Traits, Statistical Analysis
Del Valle, Milenko; Matos, Lennia; Díaz, Alejandro; Pérez, María Victoria; Vergara, Jorge – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2018
This research work aims to analyze the psychometric properties of the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS)--autonomy, competence and relatedness--identified by the self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000b), in a sample of 297 university students from different faculties and programs belonging to a Chilean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Likert Scales, Psychometrics, Psychological Needs
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Johnson, Keith; Willoughby, Shannon D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
The reliability and validity of inventories should be verified in multiple ways. Although the epistemological beliefs about the physical science survey (EBAPS) has been deemed to be reliable and valid by the authors, the axes or factor structure proposed by the authors has not been independently checked. Using data from a study sample we discussed…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Introductory Courses, Astronomy
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Faruk, Albay; Ilkay, Yazarer – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of the study is to cultivate the educational process of physical education and sport in the universities in Turkey by discovering the features of the physical development, physical preparation and the specific technical-tactical preparation of the students, engaging with basketball and the elaboration of a system for control and evaluation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Physical Development, Physical Education
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McRae, Lamerial; Gonzalez, Jennifer E.; Dominguez, Vanessa; Daire, Andrew Patrick; Liu, Xun – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2018
We examined the construction for a modified Acceptance of Couple Violence (ACV) scale administered to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer college students (N = 266) measuring intimate partner violence. We ran an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis; results identified 1 factor for the instrument explaining 76% of the variance in…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Test Construction, Questionnaires, Measures (Individuals)
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Ersanli, Ercümend; Mameghani, Shiva Saeighi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
In the present study, the Tolerance Scale developed by Ersanli (2014) was adapted to the Iranian culture, and its validity and reliability were investigated in the case of Iranian college students. The participants consisted of 552 Iranian college students (62% male, M = 20.84, S.D.: 1.53) selected using the convenience sampling method. The sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Construct Validity, Reliability
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Sahin, Cengiz – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool to determine the social media addictions of secondary school, high school and university students. 998 students participated in the study. 476 students from secondary schools, high schools and universities participated in the first application during which the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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Komperda, Regis; Hosbein, Kathryn N.; Barbera, Jack – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Increased understanding of the importance of the affective domain in chemistry education research has led to the development and adaptation of instruments to measure chemistry-specific affective traits, including motivation. Many of these instruments are adapted from other fields by using the word "chemistry" in place of other…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Affective Measures, Student Motivation, Majors (Students)
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Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Reinhard, Marc-André; Schindler, Simon – Educational Psychology, 2018
We investigate the relationship between Need for Cognition (NFC), attitude towards and self-reported application of different desirable difficulties in self-regulated learning. Students with a higher NFC should be more appreciative and prone to use desirable difficulties because of a match between the learner's attributes and the learning task…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Factor Structure, Correlation, Metacognition
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Costigan, Robert; Gurbuz, Sait; Sigri, Unsal – Journal of Career Development, 2018
The purposes of this study are to (1) examine the factorial validity of Schein's career anchors orientation inventory (COI), comparing the original eight-factor model with an alternative nine-factor model, (2) examine the cross-cultural invariance of the COI and its factor structure across two countries, (3) investigate whether core…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Validity, Occupational Tests, Career Development
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Eristi, Bahadir; Erdem, Cahit – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2017
This study aims to develop a reliable and valid scale to identify the levels of media users' media literacy skills. The scale development process was carried out in nine steps as recommended in the literature. Before the scale was administered, the items were reviewed by field experts and language experts and a pilot study was carried out.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Likert Scales, Test Construction
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Olpak, Yusuf Ziya; Kiliç Çakmak, Ebru – Online Learning, 2018
The aim of this study was to describe the validity and reliability of a Turkish language version of the CoI survey developed by Arbaugh et al. (2008). Data were obtained from 1150 students enrolled in online courses in various departments in three Turkish state universities. The data were randomly divided into two parts: the first part was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Student Surveys
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Braun, Derek C.; Gormally, Cara; Clark, M. Diane – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Disabled individuals, women, and individuals from cultural/ethnic minorities continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Research has shown that mentoring improves retention for underrepresented individuals. However, existing mentoring surveys were developed to assess the majority population, not…
Descriptors: Deafness, Mentors, Disproportionate Representation, Surveys
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