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de Souza, Renata T. M. P.; da Silva, Matheus dos Santos Barbosa; Barbato, Daniela M. L.; Ruggiero de Guzzi, Mara Eugênia; Kasseboehmer, Ana Cláudia – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
Studies on students' motivation to learn Chemistry in developed countries are largely common in the literature. However, very few studies have been carried out with a view to investigating students' motivation to learn Chemistry in places like Latin America, and specifically in Brazil. The present study sought to translate the Chemistry Motivation…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Learning Motivation, Factor Analysis
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Fernandes, Helder Miguel; Vasconcelos-Raposo, Jose – Assessment, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the internal reliability, factorial validity, and measurement invariance of a Brazilian-Portuguese version of the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) across clinical and nonclinical groups. The clinical sample consisted of 228 chronic hemodialysis patients (41.7% female), with a mean age of 48.23 (SD =…
Descriptors: Health, Questionnaires, Chronic Illness, Patients
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Byrne, Barbara M.; van de Vijver, Fons J. R. – International Journal of Testing, 2010
A critical assumption in cross-cultural comparative research is that the instrument measures the same construct(s) in exactly the same way across all groups (i.e., the instrument is measurement and structurally equivalent). Structural equation modeling (SEM) procedures are commonly used in testing these assumptions of multigroup equivalence.…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Cross Cultural Studies, Measurement, Comparative Analysis