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Lee, Jihyun; Durksen, Tracy L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
Using an established global academic interest scale, academic interest dimensions of undergraduate (n = 326) and graduate (n = 401) students were compared. The four-factor structure, consisting of passion for learning, confidence in the future, career aspiration, and self-expression, held for both student groups. However, the item scores and mean…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Student Interests, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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John B. Buncher; Jayson M. Nissen; Ben Van Dusen; Robert M. Talbot – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Research-based assessments (RBAs) allow researchers and practitioners to compare student performance across different contexts and institutions. In recent years, research attention has focused on the student populations these RBAs were initially developed with because much of that research was done with "samples of convenience" that were…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Physics, Comparative Analysis, Gender Differences
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Yildirim, Osman Gazi; Ozdener, Nesrin – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2022
The main goal of the current study is to develop a reliable instrument to measure programming anxiety in university students. A pool of 33 items based on extensive literature review and experts' opinions were created by researchers. The draft scale comprised three factors applied to 392 university students from two different universities in Turkey…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
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Kontro, Inkeri; Buschhüter, David – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) is an instrument which is widely used in physics education to characterize students' attitudes toward physics and learning physics and compare them with those of experts. While CLASS has been extensively validated for use in the context of higher education institutions in the United…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures
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Marques, Cátia; Taveira, Maria do Céu; El Nayal, Mayssah; Silva, Ana Daniela; Gouveia, Valdiney – Journal of International Students, 2020
This study aims to test the applicability of the functional theory of life values and score differences among a group of students from Lebanon and Portugal. Participants include 565 college students--278 Lebanese and 287 Portuguese. A demographic questionnaire and an adapted version of the Basic Values Survey were completed.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, College Students, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
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Filippello, Pina; Buzzai, Caterina; Sorrenti, Luana; Costa, Sebastiano; Abramo, Annarita; Wang, Kennet T. – Applied Developmental Science, 2021
The aim of this manuscript is to examine the perceived parental perfectionism in undergraduate Italian students. Study 1 aimed at exploring the factorial structure, reliability, and construct validity of the Italian version of the Family Almost Perfect Scale (FAPS). The aim of Study 2 was to cross-validate the FAPS structure with a different…
Descriptors: Italian, Personality Measures, Undergraduate Students, Parent Attitudes
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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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Cigdemoglu, Ceyhan – Science Education International, 2020
The aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of the use of science, technology, and society (STS) issues through flipped and traditional learning environments on students' motivation to learn chemistry as well as their chemical literacy (CL). Two freshman engineering classes totaling 89 students taught by the same instructor enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Intervention, Teaching Methods
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Liu, Liu; Lowe, Patricia A. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2016
The current study examined the factor structure of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation-Straightforward Items (BFNE-S) and the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation-Version 2 (BFNE-II) among 151 college students from the United States. Results indicated that the BFNE-S and the BFNE-II scores demonstrated excellent internal consistency reliability.…
Descriptors: Fear, Measures (Individuals), Factor Structure, College Students
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Zhao, Yue; Huen, Jenny M. Y.; Prosser, Michael – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2017
Purpose: Hong Kong has undergone extensive curriculum reform and shifted from a three-year to a four-year university system. With a nuanced look at the impact of the curriculum reform, the purpose of the present study was to compare two concurrent cohorts by examining the extent to which the students in each cohort perceived their learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Learning Experience, Curriculum Development
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Mayol, Mindy Hartman; Scott, Brianna M.; Schreiber, James B. – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Background: In some professions, "wellness" has become shorthand for physical fitness and nutrition but dimensions outside the physical are equally important. As wellness models continue to materialize, a validated instrument is needed to substantiate the characteristics of a multidimensional wellness model. Purpose: This 2-pronged study…
Descriptors: Wellness, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Test Use
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Watts, Logan L.; Steele, Logan M.; Song, Hairong – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Prior studies have demonstrated inconsistent findings with regard to the relationship between need for cognition and creativity. In our study, measurement issues were explored as a potential source of these inconsistencies. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to examine the factor structure underlying the 18-item need for cognition…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Structural Equation Models
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Ip, Ching Yin; Liang, Chaoyun; Wu, Shih-Chia; Law, Kris Mo Yin; Liu, Huei-Ching – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
Attention toward social entrepreneurship has increased worldwide, particularly within younger generations. Based on the identified model of social entrepreneurial intentions, this study proposed a multiple mediation framework to examine the mediating role of entrepreneurial creativity for university students. It also compared the differences…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Intention, Creativity, Comparative Analysis
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Svartdal, Frode – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Procrastination has been defined in different ways. Two instruments--the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS) and the Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS)--focus on a core problem in procrastination--the irrational delay of intended behavior. The present paper examined the psychometric properties of the Norwegian translations of these scales. In…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Correlation, Factor Structure, Translation
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