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Kim, Misol; Reid, Alan; Rickinson, Mark – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Locus of Control (LOC) is a general term used in social and educational psychology to refer to the perceived source of control for behavioural outcomes. Since the 1980s, various instruments have been developed to measure this construct in relation to pro-environmental behaviours and action. In this article, we revisit the value of this construct…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Psychometrics, Conservation (Environment), Measures (Individuals)
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Kapoor, Hansika; Reiter-Palmon, Roni; Kaufman, James C. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS; Kaufman, J. C. (2012). Counting the muses: Development of the Kaufman domains of creativity scale (K-DOCS). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 6(4), 298-308. doi:10.1037/a0029751) is a self-report assessment of five creative domains: Everyday, Scholarly, Performance, Scientific, and…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Creativity Tests, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Er, Zübeyde; Dinç Artut, Perihan; Bal, Ayten Pinar – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
The aim of this research is to develop a reliable and valid scale to determine the mathematical thinking skills of gifted students. In addition, with the developed scale, thinking skills of gifted students was examined in terms of various variables. In this context, the research was carried out on two different study groups. The first stage of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Rating Scales, Test Construction, Construct Validity
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Kaltakci-Gurel, Derya – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
In this research, the development of the Optics Interest and Experience Scale (OIES) was discussed in the first stage, and the gender differences of prospective teachers in their interest and experience were explored with OIES in the second stage. The data were collected from 228 prospective teachers from eleven universities in Turkey. For content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interest Inventories, Test Construction, Content Validity
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Karadag, Filiz; Karabey, Burak; Pfeiffer, Steven – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The reliability and validity of the Turkish-translated version of the Gifted Rating Scales (GRS) were tested on 30 preschool teachers who provided ratings for a total of 390 preschoolers aged ranging from 4 years, 0 months to 6 years, 11 months. Results indicated that the reliability and validity of all five of the GRS-P subscales were high.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Academically Gifted, Talent Identification
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Gable, Robert K.; Ludlow, Larry H.; McCoach, D. Betsy; Kite, Stacey L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2011
The development of the Survey of Knowledge of Internet Risk and Internet Behavior is described. A total of 1,366 Grades 7 and 8 male and female students from an urban, suburban, and rural school offered agree-disagree responses to 26 statements defining one Knowledge Scale and five behavior dimensions. Literature-based support is presented for…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Construct Validity, Risk, Measures (Individuals)
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Maiano, Christophe; Begarie, Jerome; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Garbarino, Jean-Marie; Ninot, Gregory – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study was to test the reliability (i.e. internal consistency and test-retest reliability) and construct validity (i.e. content validity, factor validity, measurement invariance, and latent mean invariance) of the Nutrition and Activity Knowledge Scale (NAKS) in a sample of French adolescents with mild to moderate Intellectual…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Nutrition, Content Validity, Construct Validity
Duncan-Wiles, Daphne S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the recent addition of engineering to most K-12 testable state standards, efficient and comprehensive instruments are needed to assess changes in student knowledge and perceptions of engineering. In this study, I developed the Students' Awareness and Perceptions of Learning Engineering (STAPLE) instrument to quantitatively measure fourth…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
Baker, Harley E.; Styer, Jane S.; Harmon, Lenore; Pommerich, Mary – Online Submission, 2010
Developed for the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Career Exploration Program, the Find Your Interests (FYI) inventory was designed to help students learn about their career-related interests. The FYI is a 90-item interest inventory based on Holland's (1973, 1985, 1997) widely accepted theory and taxonomy of career choice. The…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Career Choice, High School Students, Career Exploration
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Lindwall, Magnus – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2005
This study examines the factorial validity, factorial invariance across gender, and construct validity of a Swedish version of the Self-Presentation in Exercise Questionnaire (SPEQ; Conroy, Motl, & Hall, 2000). The a priori two-factor 14-item, 11-item, and 9-item models fail to reach acceptable levels of fit in a calibration sample. A modified…
Descriptors: Validity, Content Validity, Construct Validity, Factor Structure